Picturing heaven in early china
Auteur :
Tseng, Lillian Lan-ying
Éditeur :
Harvard University, Asia Center
ISBN :
9780674060692
Date de publication :
25 juil. 2011
Dimensions :
25,4 x 17,5 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Tian, or Heaven, had been used in China since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god. Examining excavated materials, Lillian Tseng shows how Han-dynasty artisans transformed various notions of Heaven—as the mandate, the fantasy, and the sky—into pictorial entities, not by what they looked at, but by what they looked into.