Research Catalog

Title

The world of Khubilai Khan : Chinese art in the Yuan Dynasty / James C.Y. Watt ; with essays by Maxwell K. Hearn [and others].

Author

Watt, James C. Y.

Publication

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2010], ©2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hearn, Maxwell K.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Description

xviii, 342 pages : color illustrations, maps (chiefly color); 32 cm

Alternative Title

Chinese art in the Yuan Dynasty

Subjects

• Art, Chinese > Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368
• Art and society > China > History

Note

• Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2010-Jan. 2, 2011.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / James C.Y. Watt -- I. Daily life. Dadu : great capital of the Yuan Dynasty / Zhixin Jason Sun -- The architecture of living and dying / Nancy S. Steinhardt -- Mongol dress in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Joyce Denney -- II. Religion. Buddhism and other "foreign" practices in Yuan China / Denise Patry Leidy -- The Daoist image : portrait of the immortal / Birgitta Augustin -- Quanzhou : cosmopolitan city of faiths / John Guy -- III. Painting and calligraphy. Painting and calligraphy under the Mongols / Maxwell K. Hearn -- IV. Textiles and decorative arts. Textiles in the Mongol and Yuan periods / Joyce Denney -- The decorative arts / James C.Y. Watt.

ISBN

• 9781588394026 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc))
• 1588394026 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc))
• 9781588394033 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (pbk.))
• 1588394034 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (pbk.))
• 9780300166569 (Yale University Press (hc))
• 0300166567 (Yale University Press (hc))

LCCN

2010030322

OCLC

• ocn606786260
• 606786260
• SCSB-5548451

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries