History of the Built Environment I (ID 108)

Color photographs of art, architecture, and decorative arts. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines the monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places on the walls and ceilings of the Forbidden City and other palaces in Beijing. Includes color photographs of art and architecture. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Color photographs and black-and-white renderings, elevations, and photographs. You can find the color photographs by searching "plate" and the black-and-white illustrations by searching "figure." Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Covers ancient, Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist art and temple decoration from ancient times through the Qing dynasty (to 1912). Color photographs can be found by searching "figure." Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Color photographs of art, architecture, and decorative arts

Exploring the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day, this comprehensive volume includes two dozen newly-commissioned essays spanning the theories, genres, and media central to Chinese art and theory throughout its history. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Covers the social history of architectural ceramics in China, their development both aesthetically (as ornament) and technically (as durable, protective components) in ancient Chinese architecture from palaces and temples to pagodas and screen walls. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Through an analysis of Ming dynasty regional aristocracy patronage of architecture, calligraphy, painting and other art forms, and through a study of the contents of their splendid and recently-excavated tombs, this innovative study puts the aristocracy back at the heart of accounts of China's culture, from which they have been excluded until very recently. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Provides an introduction to the decorative arts in Ming and Qing dynasty China, with images of a wide range of early modern Chinese objects and art-works. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).