Art History Of The Ancient Loulan Shanshan

Around the Lou-Ian and Shan-shan sites, this paper gives an observation and an outline of the art works and phenomena in this region from the remote antiquity to the 5th century A.D. Based on the archeological discoveries, historical documents on paper and preceding research results, from an aesthetic and iconological perspective, the writer has formed a conceptual period idea for the regional arts of this period, and has given a general order and explanation to different kinds of art works, including stone, pottery, rock painting, woodcarving, textile, bronze ware, lacquer, architecture, painting, sculpture, calligraphy, etc. Through a concrete knowing and understanding of these art works and icons, with a reference as rich as possible to the achievements ofarcheological, ethnological, historical and esthetic researches from home and abroad, this thesis has made the following analysis and demonstration of the developing status, social background, styles and features, cultural sources and scientific values of the Lou-Ian and. Shan-shan arts.1. Considering the documents and archeological discoveries and the developing satus of Lou-Ian and Shanshan aits, by a combination of esthetic and chronological method, this paper has formed an elementary division of three periods for the Lou-Ian and Shan-shan arts, including germinal era, fusion era and prosperous era, with different main art formsin. different periods and a dialectical interaction among the arts of three periods.2. Starting with an iconologkai research, this paper has oifered an elementary pedigree frame for the Lou-tan and Shan-shan arts. Whereas the present researches in Lou-lan and Shan-shan arts are orderlcss and non systematic, the writer has collected from relevant, works both inside and outside the country several thousands of art works photos of this region, of which the writer has chosen about four hundreds with a textual research and a classification, thus given a description of the basic aspect of the Lou-Ian and Shan-shau plastic arts.3. With enough researches, the writer argues that the Lou-lan and Shan-shan arts are formed by a fusion of the eastern and western and local arts. Lou-Ian and Shan-shan arts contain rich elements of different cultures, which reflects the cultural multiplicity of the arts of this region. This is not only the internal dynamic for its development, but also should be considered as a precious cultural source in the Chinese art history.4. According to the writer, all the historical art phenomena of this region should be considered as an organic tache in the development of the Chinese art. Furthermore, the Lou-Ian and Shan-shan arts have had a great influence on the development of eastern and western arts, and some art schools and forms of this region have bean an important creative reference for Chinese arts, they have even changed some expressionalways of the traditional arts. Meanwhile, thanks to this region, the srts of the Central Plains have produced a correspondent iniluence on western world.For all above dissertations, the writer has put forward certain elementary points of view in regard to the researches in Lou-Ian and Shan-shan arts.