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

Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Lothar Ledderose

265 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction art history adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
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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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