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No other civilization in the premodern world was more obsessed with constructing underground burial structures than China, where for at least five thousand years people devoted a great amount of wealth and labor to build tombs and furnish them with exquisite objects and images. The hope of providing the dead with an eternal home stimulated artistic creativity and technological innovation, making the tomb a persistent site of art production as well as a comprehensive ensemble of various art forms. For the most part, tombs have been mainly appreciated as "treasure troves," the contents of which has allowed art historians to rewrite histories of individual art forms such as bronze, jade, sculpture, and painting. But tombs have served this role at the expense of being fragmented in both preservation and The integrity of a tomb is obscured when it dissolves into medium-oriented classification and research. New trends in Chinese art history are now placing the entire burial (rather than its individual components) at the center of observation and interpretation. The present book takes this to the next level by focusing on interpretive methods. It argues that to achieve a genuine understan

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Author

Wu Hung, 1945-

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press; Univ of Hawaii Pr

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824834265

Category

art

Subjects

History, Art, Arts

Rating

4.83 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13