A thorough and stunning look at The MacLean Collection Asian Art Museum, which consists of more than five thousand objects, from Neolithic times to the present, focused in three media--pottery, bronze, and stone from primarily China and Southeast Asia.

A selection of Chinese pottery from the MacLean Collection of Asian art, dating from the Neolithic period (ca. 10, 000-2000 BCE) to the Tang dynasty (618-906), providing insights into the material culture, belief systems, and social development of early to medieval China.

Nowhere in the world has such a rich, distinguished, and continuous tradition of pottery production developed as in China. From the Neolithic period (ca. 10, 000-2000 BCE) to the Tang dynasty (618-906), the art of Chinese pottery making has developed as much in response to functional and aesthetic considerations as to technological improvement.

The forty-eight objects selected from the MacLean Collection Asian Art Museum represent some of the most important stages of this unparallel tradition when the forms, the artistic styles, and the techniques of pottery making emerged, improved, and sophisticated. They also provide insights into the material culture, belief systems, and social development of early and medieval China.

OFFICIAL MUSEUM COLLECTION: An inside look into the rare collection of Asian Art both achived pieces and those currently on display in the museum located in Chicago, Illinois

PERFECT FOR ART LOVERS: With enthralling photography and it's sleek hardcover, this book makes an exquisite gift for museum and art lovers everywhere

CURATED FOR YOU BY THE BEST: Authored by three of the finest doctors and curators of ancient, modern, and contemporary Chinese art and pottery

Author: Richard A. Pegg, Tongyun Yin, Zheng Wei
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Weldon Owen
Published: 10/17/2023
Pages: 280
Weight: 4.08lbs
Size: 10.44h x 10.29w x 1.39d
ISBN: 9798886740028

About the Author
Dr. Richard A. Pegg is the Director and Curator of Asian Art for the MacLean Collection, an Asian art museum and separate map library located north of Chicago Illinois. Dr. Pegg has written and lectured widely on the visual, literary, cartographic and martial arts traditions of East Asia.

Dr. Tongyun Yin is the Cofrin Curator of Asian Art at the Harn Museum of Art. Dr. Yin has curated exhibitions that aim at providing a global perspective on Asian art and culture, focusing on modern and contemporary Chinese art, her research challenges the binaries between traditional and contemporary art.

Dr. Zheng Wei is a professor in the College of Archaeology and Museum Studies at Beijing
University. Dr. Wei is engaged in the archaeological research of tombs, murals and cave
temples during the Han and Tang dynasties.