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Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making - Hardcover, by Moser Jeffrey
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- Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China
- Subject
- Asian / Chinese, Linguistics / Semantics, History / Medieval, Decorative Arts
- ISBN
- 9780226822464
- Subject Area
- Design, Art, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Publication Name
- Nominal Things : Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Length
- 10.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Type
- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Item Weight
- 40.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 7.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia. This book opens in eleventh-century China, where scholars were the first in world history to systematically illustrate and document ancient artifacts. As Jeffrey Moser argues, the visual, technical, and conceptual mechanisms they developed to record these objects laid the foundations for methods of visualizing knowledge that scholars throughout early modern East Asia would use to make sense of the world around them. Of the artifacts these scholars studied, the most celebrated were bronze ritual vessels that had been cast nearly two thousand years earlier. While working to make sense of the relationship between the bronzes' complex shapes and their inscribed glyphs, they came to realize that the objects were "nominal things"--objects inscribed with names that identified their own categories and uses. Eleventh-century scholars knew the meaning of these glyphs from hallowed Confucian writings that had been passed down through centuries, but they found shocking disconnects between the names and the bronzes on which they were inscribed. Nominal Things traces the process by which a distinctive system of empiricism was nurtured by discrepancies between the complex materiality of the bronzes and their inscriptions. By revealing the connections between the new empiricism and older ways of knowing, the book explains how scholars refashioned the words of the Confucian classics into material reality.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022682246x
ISBN-13
9780226822464
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2328291165
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Nominal Things : Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China
Publication Year
2023
Subject
Asian / Chinese, Linguistics / Semantics, History / Medieval, Decorative Arts
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Design, Art, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
40.5 Oz
Item Length
10.2 in
Item Width
7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2022-018101
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20220607
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Nominal Things is a groundbreaking philosophical study of medieval Chinese ritual vessels. It makes clear why such objects were of central cultural importance at the time and why their history should be anything but marginalized in contemporary literary and visual theory. Questioning the value of Western art historical concepts such as representation, Moser devises a new theoretical framework that follows the medieval Confucian discourse on illustrated lexicographic texts and the interpretation of classical bronzes., This is an elegantly argued, well-written, and quite brilliant book. Moser marshals the full panoply of advanced critical methods in the contemporary humanities while engaging with a significant phenomenon in Chinese history: the revival of interest in antiquity during the Song period. Nominal Things is unquestionably a remarkable achievement.
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Yes
Dewey Decimal
739.5/120951
Lc Classification Number
Nk7983.M67 2023
Table of Content
Introduction: The Conundrum of the Chalice Making Facture Sensible A Tale of Three Modes On the Matter of Antiquarianism Part I. The Lexical Picture 1. Names as Implements Nature as Convention The Revelation of Writing 2. Picturing Names The Complexity of Yellow The Art of Restoration The Hermeneutics of Picturing Monumental Designs Part II. The Empirical Impression 3. The Style of Antiquity Empty Seats and Wandering Ways Trunks and Branches Past as Present The Fragility of Stone The Failure of Confucius 4. Agents of Change Erasure and Its Discontents The Pacification of Huaixi Recarving a Stele The Reassuring Trace The Indexical Hermeneutic Bronzes as Indexical Things 5: Nominal Empiricism Conversing with Things The Sparrow in the Cup How the Bell Tolls Part III. The Schematic Thing 6: Substance into Schema Two into One The Novelty of Antiquity Bronzes as Schemata 7: Nominal Casting Facture after Failure Conclusion Acknowledgments Chinese Texts Glossary Notes Works Cited Index
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2023
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