Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture by Handler, Sarah

2001. University of California Press. 4to. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine DJ.

Berkeley:: University of California Press,. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0520214846 . Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First printing. About fine in a fine dust jacket. .

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..

-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… Read More

University of California Press, 2001-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!