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Chinese Tomb Art

"Grave Goods" section of "China 5000 Years," an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/china/gravegoods/ "Early Imperial China" section of the exhibit: "The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology" at the National Gallery of Art.
http://www.nga.gov/education/chinatp_pt4.htm Interactive Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Han Dynasty
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/05/eac/ht05eac.htm Slide show of Chinese funeral art: Qin to Tang, Cornell University
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/histart/courses/380/slidereview2.htm Tang Princess Yongtai: A Mural from her Tomb
http://www.sxlb-museum.com/english/c-2.htm

Teaching Guide to Early Imperial China: The Terracotta Army
http://www.nga.gov/education/chinatp_emp.htm


Books about Chinese Tomb Art and Funerary Practice

Childs-Johnson, Elizabeth. Ritual and Power: Jades of Ancient China. New York: China Institute in America, 1988.Hung, Wu. Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Archetecture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.Kuwayama, George, ed. Ancient Mortuary Traditions of China: Papers on Chinese Ceramic Funerary Sculptures. Los Angeles County Museum of Art and University of Hawaii Press, 1991.Lewis, Candace, J. Into the Afterlife: Han and Six Dynasties Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection. Poughkeepsie, N.Y. : Vassar College Art Gallery, 1990.Munakata, Kiyohiko. Sacred Mountains in Chinese Art. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1991.Paludan, Ann. The Chinese Spirit Road: The Classical Tradition of Stone Tomb Statuary. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Powers, Martin J. Art and Political Expression in Early China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.