LOTHAR LEDDEROSE Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1998, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Bollingen Series xxxv: 46 Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 272 pp., 14 color ills., 261 b/w. $75.00
Published in 2000 on the basis of his 1998 Mellon Lectures, given at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and 1992 Slade Lectures, given at Cambridge University, Lothar Ledderose's wide-ranging study of the mass production of art in China over four millennia is a rare attempt at a systematic general discussion of a fundamental dimension of art making in China. It exposes structural …