Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art by Lothar Ledderose
Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art

Lothar Ledderose

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art

Lothar Ledderose

265 pages paperback 1999

2 editions

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Ledderose begins with the modular system par excellence: Chinese script, an ancient system of fifty thousand characters produced from a repertoire of only about two hundred components. He shows how Chinese artists used related modular systems to...

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