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Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
Princeton: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2000
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used
mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized
parts Chinese 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.