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ISBN
9780674021396

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
ISBN-10
0674021398
ISBN-13
9780674021396
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50420465

Product Key Features

Book Title
Pattern and Person : Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China
Number of Pages
424 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Asian / Chinese, Asian / General, Sociology / General, Asia / China
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Social Science, History
Author
Martin J. Powers
Book Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
27.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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Trade
LCCN
2006-008313
Reviews
This book is an elegant and scholarly monograph...Powers, a distinguished art historian, has impeccable credentials in his field and is at his best when dealing directly with his data. These include both a comprehensive selection of classical texts and specific graphic motifs that appear on a variety of artifacts including vehicles, utensils, caskets, and personal furnishings...Powers's arguments are sound, his scholarship excellent, and his examples persuasive...Pattern and Person is an excellent resource for all students of Chinese art history and premodern Chinese history in general, and should also serve as a valuable reader's guide to the field of critical theory in art history., This book is an elegant and scholarly monograph...Powers, a distinguished art historian, has impeccable credentials in his field and is at his best when dealing directly with his data. These include both a comprehensive selection of classical texts and specific graphic motifs that appear on a variety of artifacts including vehicles, utensils, caskets, and personal furnishings...Powers's arguments are sound, his scholarship excellent, and his examples persuasive... Pattern and Person is an excellent resource for all students of Chinese art history and premodern Chinese history in general, and should also serve as a valuable reader's guide to the field of critical theory in art history., Original, sound, and stimulating...Scholars of classical Chinese value systems will be especially interested in Powers animadversions on such abstract notions as Natural Order (ziran: tzu-jan), dialectics of agency (wuwei: sic), and Dao and Public Policy...[ Pattern and Person ] is of broad interdisciplinary interest to scholars of Asian thought and religion and the cross-cultural study of civilizations., Original, sound, and stimulating...Scholars of classical Chinese value systems will be especially interested in Powers' animadversions on such abstract notions as "Natural Order" (ziran: tzu-jan), "dialectics of agency" (wuwei: sic), and "Dao and Public Policy"...[ Pattern and Person ] is of broad interdisciplinary interest to scholars of Asian thought and religion and the cross-cultural study of civilizations., This book is an elegant and scholarly monograph...Powers, a distinguished art historian, has impeccable credentials in his field and is at his best when dealing directly with his data. These include both a comprehensive selection of classical texts and specific graphic motifs that appear on a variety of artifacts including vehicles, utensils, caskets, and personal furnishings...Powerss arguments are sound, his scholarship excellent, and his examples persuasive... Pattern and Person is an excellent resource for all students of Chinese art history and premodern Chinese history in general, and should also serve as a valuable readers guide to the field of critical theory in art history., Original, sound, and stimulating...Scholars of classical Chinese value systems will be especially interested in Powers' animadversions on such abstract notions as "Natural Order" (ziran: tzu-jan), "dialectics of agency" (wuwei: sic), and "Dao and Public Policy"...[Pattern and Person] is of broad interdisciplinary interest to scholars of Asian thought and religion and the cross-cultural study of civilizations.
Dewey Edition
22
Series Volume Number
262
Dewey Decimal
745.0951/09014
Synopsis
In Classical China, crafted artefacts offered a material substrate for abstract thought as graphic paradigms for social relationships. Focusing on the 5th to 2nd Centuries B.C., Martin Powers explores how these paradigms continued to inform social thought long after the material substrate had been abandoned. In this detailed study, the author makes the claim that artefacts are never neutral: as a distinctive possession, each object - through the abstracting function of style - offers a material template for scales of value. Likewise, through style, pictorial forms can make claims about material 'referents', the things depicted. By manipulating these scales and their referents, artefacts can shape the way status, social role, or identity is understood and enforced. The result is a kind of 'spatial epistemology' within which the identities of persons are constructed. Powers thereby posits a relationship between art and society that operates at a level deeper than iconography, attributes, or social institutions. China from a condition of hereditary status to one of achieved social role and greater personal choice. This latter development, essential for bureaucratic organisation and individual achievement, challenges the conventional opposition between 'Western' individuals and 'collective' Asians.
LC Classification Number
NK1483.A1P69 2006

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