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Author : Weisbrod Chinese Art, Ltd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chinese Works of Art, Spring 1998 written by Weisbrod Chinese Art, Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hui Zou
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612491898
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)
Download or read book A Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture written by Hui Zou and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and built in the late eighteenth century by Italian and French Jesuits, the garden described in this book was a wonderland of multistoried buildings, fountains, labyrinths, and geometrical hills. It even included an open-air theater. Through detailed examination of historical literature and representations, Zou analyzes the ways in which the Jesuits accommodated their design within the Chinese cultural context. He shows how an especially important element of their approach was the application of a linear perspective—the "line-method"—to create the jing, the Chinese concept of the bounded bright view of a garden scene. Hui Zou's book demonstrates how Jesuit metaphysics fused with Chinese cosmology and broadens our understanding of cultural and religious encounters in early Chinese modernity. It presents an intriguing reflection on the interaction between Western metaphysics and the poetical tradition of Chinese culture. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students in a variety of fields, including literature, philosophy, architecture, landscape and urban studies, and East-West comparative cultural studies.
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Publisher : UM Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Newsletter, East Asian Art and Archaeology written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1994 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Weisbrod Chinese Art, Ltd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Opulence and Desire written by Weisbrod Chinese Art, Ltd and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is with an immense sense of achievement that I compose the forward to our first catalogue devoted solely to the arts of the Tang Dynasty. We have attempted to assemble a collection of carefully chosen high quality objects in the hope of doing justice to the splendor and achievements of this inspiring period of Chinese art.--Foreword.
Author : Alex Burchmore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520392574
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book New Export China written by Alex Burchmore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do so many contemporary Chinese artists use porcelain in their work? In New Export China, Alex Burchmore presents a deep dive into a unique genre of ceramic art to describe a framework for a broader art practice. Focusing on the work of four artists from the 1990s through the 2010s—Liu Jianhua, Ai Weiwei, Ah Xian, and Sin-ying Ho—Burchmore reveals how the materiality of ceramics has been used to highlight China’s role in global trade and to explore the function of this medium as a vessel for the transmission of Chinese art, culture, and ideas. From its historical pedigree and transcultural relevance to its material allure and anthropomorphic resonance, porcelain offers artists a unique way to move between the global and the intimate, the mass produced and the handmade, and the foreign and the domestic. By dissecting both the legacy of porcelain export and current networks of exchange, Burchmore ultimately demonstrates why this ceramic practice is crucial to understanding the development of Chinese contemporary art.
Author : Alice Maria Dougan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art Index written by Alice Maria Dougan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William T. Rowe
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804748186
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Saving the World written by William T. Rowe and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the case of a single well-placed official, Chen Hongmou (1696-1771), this book studies the consciousness and the governing project of the 18th-century Chinese official-elite.
Author : Roger Keverne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics written by Roger Keverne and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Sullivan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052091161X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China written by Michael Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visually stunning book focuses on the rebirth of Chinese art in the twentieth century under the influence of Western art and culture. Michael Sullivan, recognized throughout the world as a leading scholar of Chinese art, vividly documents the conflicting pulls of traditional and Western values on Chinese art and provides 364 illustrations, in color and black-and-white, to show the great range of artistic expression and the historical processes that occurred within various movements. A substantial biographical index of twentieth-century Chinese artists is a valuable addition to the text. Sullivan discusses artists and their work against China's background of oppression and relaxation, despair and hope. He expertly conveys the diverse and at times bizarre intertwining of Chinese cultural history and art during this century. Included are the intense debates between traditionalists and reformers, the creation of the first art schools, and the birth of the idea—shocking in ethnocentric China—that art is a world language that obliterates all frontiers. The scholarly traditions of classical Chinese painting, the belated discovery of Western modernism, the artistic upheaval under Communism, and China's rethinking of the very nature of art all have a place in Sullivan's fascinating history. Michael Sullivan has known many of the major figures in China's modern art movement of the 1930s and 1940s and has also gained the confidence of younger artists who rose to prominence following the 1979 "Peking Spring." This long-awaited book—richly documented and abundantly illustrated—is a capstone to Sullivan's work and will be enthusiastically welcomed by art lovers everywhere.
Author : Caroline A. Jones
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022629188X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Global Work of Art written by Caroline A. Jones and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists’ engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world’s fairs in the nineteenth century, this book argues that “globalism” was incubated in a century of international art contests and today constitutes an important tactic for artists. As world’s fairs brought millions of attendees into contact with foreign cultures, products, and processes, artworks became juxtaposed in a “theater of nations,” which challenged artists and critics to think outside their local academies. From Gustave Courbet’s rebel pavilion near the official art exhibit at the 1855 French World’s Fair to curator Beryl Madra’s choice of London-based Cypriot Hussein Chalayan for the off-site Turkish pavilion at the 2006 Venice Biennale, artists have used these exhibitions to reflect on contemporary art, speak to their own governments back home, and challenge the wider geopolitical realm—changing art and art history along the way. Ultimately, Caroline A. Jones argues, the modern appetite for experience and event structures, which were cultivated around the art at these earlier expositions, have now come to constitute contemporary art itself, producing encounters that transform the public and force us to reflect critically on the global condition.
Author : Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology Valerie Steele
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300079302
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (793 download)
Download or read book China Chic written by Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology Valerie Steele and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the historical significance of Chinese clothing, and offers examples and commentary on fashions ranging from the dragon robes of the Imperial era to the cheongsams shown on the runways in Paris
Author : J. P. Park
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295807032
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Art by the Book written by J. P. Park and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format were widely reprinted and disseminated in a number of contemporary publications. Focusing on Zhou's work, Art by the Book describes how such publications accommodated the cultural taste and demands of the general public, and shows how painting manuals functioned as a form in which everything from icons of popular culture to graphic or literary cliche was presented to both gratify and shape the sensibilities of a growing reading public. As a special commodity of early modern China, when cultural standing was measured by a person's command of literati taste and lore, painting manuals provided nonelite readers with a device for enhancing social capital.
Author : Mark Johnstone
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 0811835413
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Epicenter written by Mark Johnstone and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hotbed of seismic activity, the San Francisco Bay Area is also an epicenter of vital new work by an art community always pushing the bounds of cultural innovation. Epicenter showcases the work of nearly fifty prominent and rising-star artists who have made this region the base of eclectic, cutting-edge art on the West Coast. Each profile captures the essence of the artists work with a gallery of signature work, critical career overview, brief biography, and selected bibliography for further exploration. The artists featured in Epicenter reflect the ethnic diversity, variety of media, and originality of the regional scene. Packaged in a handsome horizontal format with a forward-looking design, Epicenter is a timely look at the leading purveyors of the areas pioneering and ever-shifting panorama of art. Artists featured in Epicenter: Ray Beldner, Christopher Brown, Squeak Carnwath, Enrique Chagoya, Ann Chamberlain, Bruce Conner, Linda Connor, Crane|Winet, Judy Dater, Lewis de Soto, Viola Frey, Rupert Garcia, Carmen Lomas GarzaKen Goldberg, Guillermo Gmez-Pea, Ian Green, Lynn Hershman, Todd Hido, Doug Hollis, Mildred Howard, David Ireland, Paul Kos, Suzanne Lacy, Hung LiuTom Marioni, Richard Misrach, Anna Valentina Murch, Nobuho Nagasawa, Ron Nagle, Deborah Oropallo, Gay Outlaw, Irne Pijoan, Lucy Puls, Alan Rath, Rigo, Raymond Saunders, Richard Shaw, Katherine Sherwood, Silt, Mary Snowden, Larry Sultan, Survival Research Laboratories, Stephanie Syjuco, Mark Thompson, Meredith Tromble, Catherine Wagner, Henry Wessel, Rene Yung
Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691253021
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Chinese Painting and Its Audiences written by Craig Clunas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the reception of Chinese painting from the sixteenth century to the present What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Chinese Painting and Its Audiences demonstrates that viewers in China and beyond have irrevocably shaped this great artistic tradition. Arguing that audiences within China were crucially important to the evolution of Chinese painting, Clunas considers how Chinese artists have imagined the reception of their own work. By examining paintings that depict people looking at paintings, he introduces readers to ideal types of viewers: the scholar, the gentleman, the merchant, the nation, and the people. In discussing the changing audiences for Chinese art, Clunas emphasizes that the diversity and quantity of images in Chinese culture make it impossible to generalize definitively about what constitutes Chinese painting. Exploring the complex relationships between works of art and those who look at them, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences sheds new light on how the concept of Chinese painting has been formed and reformed over hundreds of years. Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
Author : R. Gallo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403982651
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book New Tendencies in Mexican Art written by R. Gallo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s there has been considerable interest in Mexico and its art, as one can see from the sheer number of exhibitions, catalogues, and articles devoted to the subject. Despite this interest, there are few books devoted to contemporary Mexican art. New Tendencies in Mexican Art is the first book-length study devoted to a generation of Mexican artists who have had enormous international success. It focuses on several 'tendencies' Gallo has identified as prominent themes in the work of these artists including orientalism, perversion, and a fascination with urban culture.
Author : Jason C. Kuo
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820444604
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting written by Jason C. Kuo and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Chinese painting embodies the constant renewal and reinvigorations of Chinese civilization amidst rebellions, reforms, and revolutions, even if the process may appear confusing and bewildering. It also demonstrates the persistence of tradition and limits of continuities and changes in modern Chinese cluture. Most significantly, it compels us to ask several important questions in the study of modern Chinese culture: How extensively can cultural tradition be re-interpreted before it is subverted? At what point is creative re-invention an act of betrayal of tradition? How has selective borrowing from Chinese tradition and foreign cultrue enabled modern Chinese artists to sustain themselves in the modern world? By focusing on the art of Huang Pin-hung (1865-1955), particularly his late work, this book attempts to provide some answers to these questions.
Author : Alexandra B. Bonds
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824861612
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Beijing Opera Costumes written by Alexandra B. Bonds and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-04-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beijing Opera Costumes is the first in-depth English-language book focused exclusively on the costumes of Jingju, the highest form of stage arts in China. This comprehensive volume provides both theory and analysis of the costumes and the method of their selection for the roles as well as technical information on embroidery, patterns, and construction. Extensive descriptions illuminate the use of colors and surface images derived from historical dress and modified for the stage. Details on makeup, hairstyles, and dressing techniques present a complete view of the Jingju performer from head to toe. Meticulously researched in Taipei and Beijing, this definitive work begins with an outline of the rich and complex history of Beijing opera and significant developments in design over the past millennium. Chapters on costume theory and design elements and their modification to create a wide variety of images are followed by presentations of individual costumes together with their historical background and use of color and pattern. A survey of the accessories and headdresses, makeup and hairstyles, accompanies the discussion of each costume. The intricacies of choosing costumes for a production and dressing actors are also discussed. Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 color and black-and-white photographs and pattern drafts, Beijing Opera Costumes is an indispensable record of and resource for Jingju as it is performed in China today. Textile artists will appreciate the beauty of the colors and designs as well as the information on embroidery techniques and symbolism of the images. China scholars will value the contextual analysis and theater specialists the explication of costumes in relation to performance. Finally, costume designers will relish the opportunity to examine in detail their art in another cultural setting and theatrical style.
