Overview
Science has played a crucial role in the initial stages of westerners' collecting and studying ancient Chinese artworks and archaeological materials. The relevant scientific data were quickly generated using progressively sophisticated examination techniques. But the task of integrating scientific data with archaeological and art historical resources, and developing a workable interdisciplinary study method, has lagged behind scientific endeavor. Part One of this book explores the modes and functions of the scientific resources available and their integration into interdisciplinary study methods and models; pre-war researchers particularly emphasized that their studies of Chinese artistic/archaeological materials were scientific. Improvements in precision and advanced specialization of examining instruments and techniques resulted in substantively more detailed scientific data, particularly in the post-war period. This brought with it new research dimensions and increased knowledge of targeted samples, and also greater challenges to the integration of interdisciplinary study. In Part Two, Meili Yang establishes a feasible method of interdisciplinary study in terms of five case studies related to Chinese Song ceramics. Relevant data are provided and professionally explained, resulting in critical new information related to contemporary ceramic technologies. This technology information leads us to the recognition of the uniqueness of each single artwork and the artisan's individual intention and critically, recognition of the close association with contemporary society and culture at the time of manufacture. Utilizing this new method of interdisciplinary study, modern science, ancient technology, and art and society are seen to have explicit connections. The author not only broadens scholars' and readers' perspectives regarding ancient ceramic craft, but provides a rigorous methodology applicable to interdisciplinary studies across other disciplines.
Full Product Details
Author: Meili Yang
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Imprint: Liverpool University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.10cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 24.60cm
Weight: 0.466kg
ISBN: 9781845197339
ISBN 10: 184519733
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 July 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Meili Yang served as a senior curator in the Department of Antiquities in the National Palace Museum at Taipei from 1983 to 2006. She received her MA in Chinese Art History from National Taiwan University in 1983. Since 2007, she has studied heritage conservation science and archaeology in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, USA, where she received an MS degree in 2010. Since 2011, she teaches History of Chinese Crafts and Decorative Arts and The Art and Science of Chinese Ceramics at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
