Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes

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CONTENTS
Preface
Part 1 Introduction: Classification and Style
Karlgren and Loehr
Taxonomy
Classifying Bronzes
Part 2 Karlgren's First Paper: "Yin and Chou in Chinese Bronzes" (1936)
Part 3 Karlgren's Second Paper: "New Studies on Chinese Brones" (1937)
Part 4 Karlgren's Later Writings
"Some Early Chinese Bronze Masters" (1944)
"Once Again the A and B Styles in Yin Ornamentation" (1946)
"Bronzes in the Hellström Collection" (1948)
"Notes on the Grammar of Early Bronze Décor" (1951)
"Marginalia on Some Bronze Albums II" (1960)
"Some Characteristics of the Yin Art" (1962)
Part 5 Loehr's First Paper: "Beiträge zur Chronologie der Älteren Chinesischen Bronzen" (1936)
Part 6 Loehr's "The Bronze Styles of the Anyang Period" (1953)
Loehr's Paper
Archaeology and Loehr's Bronze Styles
"Another way of overcoming certain limitations of Style III"
The Invention of Animal Images
Imaginary Animals
The Meaning of the Bronze Ornament
Part 7 Classification
A Warehouse Full of Bronzes
Science
More Classifiers:
Thorp, Zhang, Elisseeff, von Erdberg
"Casting Bronze the Complicated Way"
Part 8 Style
List of Tables and Figures
A Note on Dates
Tables and Figures
Works Cited
Index