{"product_id":"beyond-representation-chinese-painting-and-calligraphy-8th14th-century-princeton-monographs-in-art-and-archaeology-no-48-9780300057010","title":"Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy  8Th-14th Century (Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology  No 48)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book presents a survey of Chinese painting from the eighth to the 14th century  a period during which the nature of Chinas pictorial art changed dramatically. Illustrated by works in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art  New York  the author begins by describing the advent toward the end of the Bronze Age of figural representation in Chinese art  and next traces the development of Chinese landscape painting from the third to the tenth century. He then moves on to discuss the art of the Sung dynasty  when the imperial government was increasingly absolute and repressive. In this period artists shifted from a realistic rendition of nature to more symbolic representation of single flowers  rocks and trees. By the time of the Yuan dynasty  following the Mongol conquest of 1279  objective representation in art had been replaced by imagery that drew on the artists inner response to his world. Because it was believed that the meaning of a painted subject  made complex by personal and symbolic associations  could no longer be expressed without language  the painter began to inscribe poems and incorporate calligraphy in his works  the multiple relationships among word  image and calligraphy forming the basis of a new art. At this stage Chinese art entered its richest and most diverse stage f development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651930185781,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300057016","price":234.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300057010.jpg?v=1781845767","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/beyond-representation-chinese-painting-and-calligraphy-8th14th-century-princeton-monographs-in-art-and-archaeology-no-48-9780300057010","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}