Black tigers : a grammar of Chinese rubbings

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Black tigers : a grammar of Chinese rubbings

Kenneth Starr

(A China program book)

University of Washington Press, c2008

  • : pbk. : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Since at least the early sixth century C.E., ink rubbings of stone, metal, clay tiles, and wood inscriptions and pictorial images have been used in China to make precise copies of culturally valued material. These paper copies sometimes are all that remain of original works that have become illegible through erosion, or that have been destroyed by war or development, or have been rendered inaccessible through events such as flooding resulting from dam construction. Chinese rubbing techniques are used throughout East Asia to create copies that often also are prized in themselves as works of art. Despite the primary importance of this technology to history, art, archaeology, printing, and many other fields of knowledge, Black Tigers is the first comprehensive study of rubbings in a Western language, and as such will be welcomed by both scholars and collectors. In Black Tigers, Kenneth Starr recounts what he has seen and learned in fifty years of fascination with rubbings and travels to China in search of the early inscriptions from which they came. The book is a history of rubbings, a guide to connoisseurship, and a technical handbook on the materials and techniques used to make rubbings. Now readers of English, with the author as their affable guide, can gain rich insight into a rigorous discipline of classical scholarship, the way in which traditional scholars viewed their world, and some of the exquisite subtleties of Chinese high culture and connoisseurship. Black Tigers will be an essential resource for students of Chinese art, history, calligraphy, archaeology, and the history of printing.

目次

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

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA86946633
  • ISBN
    • 9780295988115
  • LCCN
    2007040825
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Seattle
  • ページ数/冊数
    xi, 280 p., 8 p. of plates
  • 大きさ
    26 cm
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