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Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 35) by Lothar Ledderose; National Gallery of Art (SI, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.) is a art available to read on EtoBox.
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Chinese workers in the third century b.c. created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century a.d., Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China exported more than a hundred million pieces of porcelain to the West. As these examples show, the Chinese throughout history have produced works of art in astonishing quantities--a
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- Author
- Lothar Ledderose; National Gallery of Art (SI, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.)
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691009575
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- History, Technology, Art
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
- Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 46) (2023)
- Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) (2001)
- Wan Wu: [zhongguo Yi Shu Zhong De Mo Jian Hua He Gui Mo Hua Sheng Chan] Zhongguo Yi Shu Zhong De Mo Jian Hua He Gui Mo Hua Sheng Chan Ten Thousand Things. Chine (2005)
- Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 35) (2000)
- Ten Thousand Things : Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art (2023)
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