Kenneth Starr

Black Tigers

A Grammar of Chinese Rubbings

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since at least the seventh century C.E., Chinese ink rubbings of stone, metal, and wood inscriptions and pictorial images have been created to serve as precise copies of valuable material. These paper copies sometimes are all that remain of the original works. Despite the primary importance of this technology to history, art, archaeology, and many other fields, this is the first comprehensive study of rubbings in a Western language. Kenneth Starr is the former director of the Milwaukee Public Museum and former curator of Asiatic Archaeology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 179mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 807g
• ISBN-13: 9780295988115
• ISBN-10: 0295988118
• Artikelnr.: 23427243

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Starr

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The History and Functions of Rubbings
2. Orchid Root and Rhinoceros-Tail Hair
3. The Gentle Art
4. Gentler Still
5. Variations on the Theme
6. When the Work Is Done
7. The Rice and the Chaff
Appendix 1. Historical Periods
Appendix 2. Terms for Rubbings, the Rubbing Technique, and Related
Processes
Appendix 3. Terms for Papers Used to Make Rubbings
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Index