Color in Ancient and Medieval East Asia

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dc.contributor.editorDusenbury, Mary
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-20T22:19:17Z
dc.date.available2017-02-20T22:19:17Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionWith essays by Monica Bethe, Mary M Dusenbury, Shih-shan Susan Huang, Ikumi Kaminishi, Guolong Lai, Richard Laursen, Liu Jian and Zhao Feng, Chika Mouri, Park Ah-rim, Hillary Pedersen, Lisa Shekede and Su Bomin, Sim Yeon-ok and Lee Seonyong, Tanaka Yoko, and Zhao Feng and Long Bo
dc.description.abstractColor was a critical element in East Asian life and thought, but its importance has been largely overlooked in Western scholarship. This interdisciplinary volume explores the fascinating roles that color played in the society, politics, thought, art, and ritual practices of ancient and medieval East Asia (ca. 1600 B.C.E.–ca. 1400 C.E.). While the Western world has always linked color with the spectrum of light, in East Asian civilizations colors were associated with the specific plant or mineral substances from which they were derived. Many of these substances served as potent medicines and elixirs, and their transformative powers were extended to the dyes and pigments they produced. Generously illustrated, this groundbreaking publication constitutes the first inclusive study of color in East Asia. It is the outcome of years of collaboration between chemists, conservators, archaeologists, historians of art and literature, and scholars of Buddhism and Daoism from the United States, East Asia, and Europe.
dc.identifier.citationDusenbury, Mary, ed. Color in Ancient and Medieval East Asia. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2015.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1808/23208
dc.publisherSpencer Museum of Art, University of Kansasen_US
dc.publisherNew Haven : Yale University Press
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccess
dc.subjectColor in art
dc.subjectSymbolism of colors -- East Asia
dc.subjectArt, East Asian
dc.subjectSymbolism of colors
dc.subjectEast Asia
dc.titleColor in Ancient and Medieval East Asiaen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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