Watt, James C. Y.

The world of Khubilai Khan : Chinese art in the Yuan Dynasty / Chinese art in the Yuan Dynasty James C.Y. Watt ; with contributions by Maxwell K. Hearn ... [et al.]. - New York : New Haven [Conn.] : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, 2010. - xviii, 342 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 31 cm.

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781588394026 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc)) 9781588394033 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (pbk.)) 9780300166569 (Yale University Press (hc))

2010030322


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

N7343.4 / .W38 2010

709.51/09022