{"product_id":"imagining-sculpture-stanley-abe-9783777437583","title":"Imagining Sculpture: A Short Conjectural History","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new critical approach to understanding sculpture across cultures.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eImagining Sculpture\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the absence of a powerful European idea: Sculpture. In China statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia but were not categorized as Sculpture. \u003ci\u003eImagining Sculpture\u003c\/i\u003e explains how they were seen in China as objects beyond the category of Sculpture. Stanley Abe has written a series of short historical and fictional vignettes about travelers, scholars, officials, collectors, and antiquarians who encounter statues, figures, and effigies in China and the West from the fourteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. \u003ci\u003eImagining Sculpture\u003c\/i\u003e is visual, cinematic, and sumptuous, featuring rare photographs, paintings, sketches, letters, and ephemera. With little text, images propel the narrative. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanley Abe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3777437581\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783777437583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hirmer Verlag GmbH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 7.50w x 2.30d","brand":"Stanley Abe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981997867263,"sku":"9783777437583","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_18688e58-23c3-4e7c-a319-17dab4ebcc2d.jpg?v=1683258701","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imagining-sculpture-stanley-abe-9783777437583","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}