An enormous number of burial objects have been unearthed from ancient tombs in archaeological excavations in China. These mingqi were made in all kinds of materials and in a broad range of forms, techniques and craftsmanship. In this book Quinghua Guo examines a particular type of mingqi - pottery building. The striking realism of the pottery buildings suggests that they were modelled after actual buildings. They bring to life courtyard houses, manors, towers, granaries and pigsty-privies, as well as cooking ranges and well pavilions. These pottery buildings, previously little known, preserve knowledge of antiquity and demonstrate the architectural quality and structural variety of the period.The author identifies the typology of the pottery buildings they signify in terms of ontology and semiology, in order to provide a conceptual map for classification, and identifies building systems reflected by the mingqi to detect architectonic systems of the Han dynasty. Key features of this volume include: cross-disciplinary research - architectural study interlocking with archaeological study and architectural study interlocking with graphic study. The Han pottery buildings are important architectural models from the ancient world, and are contrasted with wooden houses of Middle-Kingdom Egypt and brick buildings of the Minor civilisation, Crete, allowing cross-cultural comparisons.
1 有用 南海郡掾 2022-05-26 10:40:35
The incomplete notes and omission of so much of the relevant scholarly literature make the book less useful as a research tool——review by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
0 有用 黄油老虎饼 2019-10-01 14:01:48
是这个类型的一个比较好的书····虽然我对有些论点存疑，但是还是蛮不错的~
0 有用 游鹿 2013-01-29 12:21:55
也算是看完了。