Guided tour of the "Snowflakes between Gauze: Rubbings from the Han Dynasty" exhibition featured in the upper gallery. This tour will be led by BUAM's exhibition interns. 

Features rubbings taken from relief sculptures from Han Dynasty tombs in China.

Rubbings are ink-on-paper copies of aesthetically and intellectually valuable materials that were engraved, cast, molded or carved into metal, clay, stone, shell or bone. They are a means of reproduction created to preserve memory, to facilitate learning, and to disseminate information. Chinese techniques of rubbings vary in technique from the stark contrast of the wujin ta (black-gold) style to the subtler tonal variations of the xuehua jia sha (snowflakes between gauze) style. The rubbings in this exhibition are outstanding examples of the latter technique, truly snowflake-like in their appearance. They were created by Bu Youchang and annotated by Xia Yipeng, both of Hangzhou Normal University in China. The rubbings are made from works in Professor Bu’s collection of reliefs that formerly decorated Han Dynasty (207 BCE-220 CE) tombs in Nanyang City, Henan province, China.

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Tours by appointment will be available by 2/13. Please contact us for more information.