Colours and Contrast

Ceramic Traditions in Chinese Architecture
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27981-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 218 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 1338 g

Ancient Chinese halls are celebrated for their majestic rooflines. The shape and mass of buildings preoccupy architects, Chinese builders included, but the greater visual impact of these structures comes from their ceramic roof ornament. Indeed travellers through the centuries have first glimpsed a distant city as sunlight glints from its tallest rooftops. These ceramics seldom distract disciplines such as architecture or fine ceramics, but in Colours and Contrast Clarence Eng urges that they be studied in their own right. He introduces the aesthetics, history and technology of Chinese architectural ceramics, demonstrates that similarly skilled expertise produced both glazed and unglazed ornament, and describes their special contribution to structures designed primarily to delight the viewer, such as pagodas and screen walls.

Zielgruppe

All who are interested in Chinese architecture and art history, including museum curators, collectors and scholars. Also students of ceramics, their role as ornament and as signifiers, and their technology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eng, Clarence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Keramik, Porzellan, Glaskunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst

Über Autor(innen)

Clarence Eng, Ph.D. (2008) is a research associate at SOAS, University of London. After graduating at Cambridge his career in Shell International included senior posts in China. He is now an architectural historian specialising in Chinese history and cultural transmission.