A General History of Chinese Art: Sui and Tang Dynasties - Paperback

by Xifan Li (Editor)

This volume covers Chinese art during
the reign of the Sui and Tang Dynasties during which the various
disciplines of plastic and performing arts all entered a stage of
unprecedented prosperity and development. It also traces new
explorations in calligraphy, painting, and mural art and highlights
architectural achievements during the historic period.

A General History of Chinese Art comprises six volumes with a total of nine parts spanning from the Prehistoric Era until the 3^rd
year of Xuantong during the Qing Dynasty (1911). The work provides a
comprehensive compilation of in-depth studies of the development of art
throughout the subsequent reign of Chinese dynasties and explores the
emergence of a wide range of artistic categories such as but not limited
to music, dance, acrobatics, singing, story telling, painting,
calligraphy, sculpture, architecture, and crafts. Unlike previous
reference books, A General History of Chinese Art offers a
broader overview of the notion of Chinese art by asserting a more
diverse and less material understanding of arts, as has often been the
case in Western scholarship.

Broad overall view, translated from Chinese