Ten Thousand Things (eBook)

Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art

Lothar Ledderose (Autor)

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2023
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25288-9 (ISBN)

Infos

An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized partsChinese workers in the third century BCE created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century CE, Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. As these examples show, throughout history, Chinese artisans have produced works of art in astonishing quantities, and have done so without sacrificing quality, affordability, or speed of manufacture. In this book, Lothar Ledderose takes us on a remarkable tour of Chinese art and culture to explain how artists used complex systems of mass production to assemble extraordinary objects from standardized parts or modules. He reveals how these systems have deep roots in Chinese thought and reflect characteristically Chinese modes of social organization. Combining invaluable aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations, Ten Thousand Things make a profound statement about Chinese art and society.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
• Reihe/Serie: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
• Zusatzinfo: 342 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: aesthetics of • applied and minor • as art form • as central to life of literati • Book of Changes (Yijing) • Building Standards (Yingzao fashi), • cities, modular-grid layout of • collecting of • collectors and collecting of • developments in • during Qin • early trend toward • establishment of European industry for • European co-invention of • factories (Chinese) • factory system of production for • Julien, Stanislas • learning from Chinese art production • Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm • literacy (Chinese) • mass production, in China • modularity of • Modular Production • modular production of • modules • names of, inscribed on objects • Nan Yue kingdom, tomb of • Period • Shang module systems in • Standardization • wall paintings in • West, the • writing central to life of • Yijing (Book of Changes) • Yingzao fashi (Building Standards)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25288-2 / 0691252882
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25288-9 / 9780691252889