TITLE:
The Great Wall of China : with 159 duotone photographs and 10 maps / Daniel Schwartz.
Publication Date:
1990
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Thames and Hudson,
Physical Description:
223, [1] p. : ill., maps.
Subject Term:
Summary:
The Great Wall of China cannot be photographed. It is not a line of stones on the ground. It is an idea. It is not even a wall. It is many walls built over roughly 2000 years by different dynasties. We tend to think that 'China' surrounded itself by a wall. It was rather that the different peoples who in the course of history came to constitute China put up walls of their own. Invaders from the north would overrun one stretch of wall and erect another further out. Eventually these sections were joined together to make the wall we know.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780500541562
General Note:
"Including 'The Wall and the books' by Jorge Luis Borges [and] The Great Wall in history by Luo Zhewen."
"Exhibition organized by the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne: Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, August 12-November 11, 1990, Lausanne, Musee de l'Elysee, February 5-March 31, 1991"--P. [224].
