The Arts of China
The Arts of China

Author: Michael Sullivan

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780520033672

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Sullivan has thoroughly revised this classic history of Chinese art which covers the period from Neolithic times to the 1990s. 224 photos. 164 color illustrations. 14 maps.

The Great Bronze Age of China
The Great Bronze Age of China

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0870992260

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Describes the Chinese Bronze Age, including the development of the Chinese state, writing, religion and architecture.

The Rare Art Traditions
The Rare Art Traditions

Author: Joseph Alsop

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2023-08-15

Total Pages: 750

ISBN-13: 0691252254

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A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market In The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market. He argues that art collecting is the basic element in a remarkably complex and historically rare behavioral system, which includes the historical study of art, the market for buying and selling art, museums, forgery, and the astonishing prices commanded by some works of art. The Rare Art Traditions tells the story of three important traditions of art collecting: the classical tradition that began in Greece, the Chinese tradition, and the Western tradition. The result is a major original contribution to art history.

Early Civilizations of the Old World
Early Civilizations of the Old World

Author: Charles Keith Maisels

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1134837305

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In this new paperback edition of Early Civilizations of the Old World, Charles Keith Maisels traces the development of some of the earliest and key civilizations in history. In each case the ecological and economic background to growth, geographical factors, cross-cultural intersection and the rise of urbanism are examined, explaining how particular forms of social structure and cultural interaction developed from before the Neolithic period to the time of the first civilizations in each area. This volume challenges the traditional assumption of a band-tribe-chiefdom-state sequence and instead demonstrates that large complex societies can flourish without social classes and the state, as dramatically shown by the Indus civilization. Such features as the use of Childe's urban revolution theory as a means of comparison for each emerging civilization and the discussion of the emergence of archaeology as a scientific discipline, make Early Civilizations of the Old World a valuable, innovative and stimulating work.