The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art

by Wu Hung

Book Overview

The funerary shrine of the Confucian scholar Wu Liang, created in AD 151, is the most important surviving pre-Buddhist monument in China. That is to say, it is the most important single work of visual art from the centuries that set the patterns of Chinese thought for almost two millennia. The importance of the shrine lies in the beauty of the stone reliefs on its walls and, especially, in the remarkably comprehensive iconography of its nearly one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804715297
• ISBN13: 9780804715294
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.