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Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Photographic color illustrated Dust Jacket. Crisp and bright. Red cloth boards with sharp corners. Lavishly illustrated in color and b & w. A cultural history of Chinese furniture. An unparalleled and highly erudite blend of art and social history as relates to Chinese furniture. 427 plus pp. Heavy. 5 lbs plus. Brilliant presentation. Near fine.
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- Title Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture
- Author Sarah Handler
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 417
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date October 1, 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780520214842 / 0520214846
- Weight 5.1 lbs (2.31 kg)
- Dimensions 11 x 8.5 x 1.76 in (27.94 x 21.59 x 4.47 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Furniture - China - History - Ming-Qing, Furniture - Social aspects - China
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00061992
- Dewey Decimal Code 749.295
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-University of California Press (29 Oct. 2001)-. First edition, 2001. 417 pages. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. Chinese classical furniture is esteemed throughout the world for its beauty, functionalism, and influence on contemporary design aesthetics. Sarah Handler's stunningly illustrated volume traces Chinese hardwood furniture from its earliest origins in the Shang dynasty (c. 1500 to c. 1050 B.C.) to the present. She offers a fascinating and poetic view of Chinese furniture as functional sculpture, a fine art alongside the other Chinese arts of calligraphy, architecture, painting, and literature. Handler, a widely respected scholar of Chinese furniture, uses her knowledge of Chinese social, political, and economic history to provide a backdrop for understanding the many nuances of this art form. Drawing on literary and visual evidence from excavated materials, written texts, paintings, prints, and engravings, she discusses how people lived, their notions of…
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Berkeley: University of California, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 417 pp, numerous b/w and color illustrations, chronology of dynasties, notes, works cited, glossary-index, large 4to, red cloth. Heavy. Fine in a near fine dust jacket..
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