32\u00a0 bar steady 30.37\u00a0 4mph NNW dewpoint 27<\/p>\n
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Out of the bronze age.\u00a0 This was a splendid tour and a testimony to the high tech-high touch maxim of\u00a0Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock.\u00a0 This was\u00a07 people, four Chinese and\u00a0three Caucasian, who met through the Meet-Up website.\u00a0 They had all indicated an interest in things Chinese.\u00a0 Thus, this was a random group save for their convergence on Meet-Up through their interest in a far-off land.\u00a0 Amazing.\u00a0 There we were, more or less strangers, together to study the bronze tradition of ancient China.\u00a0\u00a0 So we did.<\/p>\n
We moved from the ceramic cases where we discussed the influence of Neolithic ceramic shapes on\u00a0bronze vessels and the transition from ceramics to bronze as the primary artistic medium, then trekked over the bronze gallery.\u00a0 There we started with the oldest object in our bronze collection, the jueh wine warmer.\u00a0 After we identified some of the shapes from the ceramic cases:\u00a0 hu, lei and ku for example, we dove into piece-mold casting.\u00a0 This led to a conversation about design and the convergence here between technology and design.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
We followed the t’ao t’ieh mask until it faded in the mid-Zhou dynasty and noticed the birds and more abstract designs that followed.\u00a0 As the Eastern Zhou began we noticed the change in inscriptions and the shift from public ritual to private artifact until in the Warring States period the bronze vessels no longer had a sacred connotation primarily but had become objects of status.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To end we noticed the more modest bronze work of the Han and finished in the Sung dynasty ceramics with a celadon ting in miniature.\u00a0 Bronze vessels had become a treasured objet d’art.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
32\u00a0 bar steady 30.37\u00a0 4mph NNW dewpoint 27 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Moon of Winds Out of the bronze age.\u00a0 This was a splendid tour and a testimony to the high tech-high touch maxim of\u00a0Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock.\u00a0 This was\u00a07 people, four Chinese and\u00a0three Caucasian, who met through the Meet-Up website.\u00a0 They had all … Continue reading High-Tech, High-Touch<\/span>