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Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China

Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861894996
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China written by Craig Clunas and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China is not simply a survey of sixteenth-century images, but rather, a thorough and thoughtful examination of visual culture in China's Ming Dynasty, one that considers images wherever they appeared—not only paintings, but also illustrated books, maps, ceramic bowls, lacquered boxes, painted fans, and even clothing and tomb pictures. Clunas's theory of visuality incorporates not only the image and the object upon which it is placed but also the culture which produced and purchased it. Economic changes in sixteenth-century China—the rapid expansion of trade routes and a growing class of consumers—are thus intricately bound up with the evolution of the image itself. Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China will be a touchstone for students of Chinese history, art, and culture.

Chinese Pictorial Art as Viewed by the Connoisseur

Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Oriental Book Store
ISBN 13 : 9789576381539
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Pictorial Art as Viewed by the Connoisseur written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by Oriental Book Store. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

China, Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical

Author : Julia Corner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China, Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical written by Julia Corner and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Double Screen

Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861898428
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Double Screen written by Wu Hung and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1996-11-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears; its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social activities and cultural conventions neglected. A screen occupies a space and divides it, supplies an ideal surface for painting, and has been a favorite pictorial image in Chinese art since antiquity. Wu Hung undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the screen, which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all three at once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinese painters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art. The Double Screen provides a powerful non-Western perspective on issues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism, masquerade, and political rhetoric. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of art and Asian studies.

China Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical

Author : Miss Corner (Julia)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book China Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical written by Miss Corner (Julia) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wu Liang Shrine

Author : Wu Hung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804715294
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book The Wu Liang Shrine written by Wu Hung and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The funerary shrine of the Confucian scholar Wu Liang, created in AD 151, is the most important surviving pre-Buddhist monument in China. That is to say, it is the most important single work of visual art from the centuries that set the patterns of Chinese thought for almost two millennia. The importance of the shrine lies in the beauty of the stone reliefs on its walls and, especially, in the remarkably comprehensive iconography of its nearly one hundred scenes. They constitute, in effect, a coherent symbolic structure of the universe as the Han Chinese conceived it. This structure consists of three sections: the ceiling carvings present the Mandate of Heaven; the scenes on the two gables depict the paradise of the immortals; and the 44 stories related on the walls illustrate the history of mankind, starting with the creators of human culture and ending with a portrait of Wu Liang, who designed his own memorial. The author finds the shrine comparable, in the comprehensiveness and cultural significance of its iconography, to the cathedral at Chartres or the Sistine Chapel.

Chinese Pictorial Art

Author : Klas Valter Fåhræus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Pictorial Art written by Klas Valter Fåhræus and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

China Pictorial

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
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Download or read book China Pictorial written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Introduction to the History of Chinese Pictorial Art

Author : Herbert Allen Giles
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book An Introduction to the History of Chinese Pictorial Art written by Herbert Allen Giles and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imperial Illusions

Author : Kristina Kleutghen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805528
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Illusions written by Kristina Kleutghen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were also deeply meaningful to Qianlong. These unprecedented works not only offer new insights into late imperial China’s most influential emperor, but also reflect one way in which Chinese art integrated and domesticated foreign ideas. In Imperial Illusions, Kristina Kleutghen examines all known surviving examples of the Qing court phenomenon of “scenic illusion paintings” (tongjinghua), which today remain inaccessible inside the Forbidden City. Produced at the height of early modern cultural exchange between China and Europe, these works have received little scholarly attention. Richly illustrated, Imperial Illusions offers the first comprehensive investigation of the aesthetic, cultural, perceptual, and political importance of these illusionistic paintings essential to Qianlong’s world. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/imperial-illusions

Chinese Lattice Designs

Author : Daniel Sheets Dye
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486146227
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Lattice Designs written by Daniel Sheets Dye and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese craft design excelled in the manipulation of geometric space and reached its highest point in the design of window lattices on Chinese houses. Long recognized as an important folk art, window lattices have been generally neglected as an art form and this book is the first work on the subject since the 17th century. Fortunately, it is also the definitive work on the subject, and though no book can present a complete coverage of Chinese lattice, this book is a great classic study and an incredibly rich source of design for Westerners. More than 1200 designs are shown here, arranged in a clear system of classification that includes 22 areas of related design — borders, brackets, tail pieces, and so on. The lattices are classified according to one basic figure or concept, and the hundreds of beautiful design variations fall into only 26 categories: parallelogram, octagon or octagon square, hexagon, single focus frames, double focus frames, triple focus frames, quintuple focus frames, no focus frames, wedge-lock, presentation, out-lock, in-out bound, the Han line, parallel waves, opposed waves, recurving wave, loop-continued, like swastikas (a Buddhist symbol), unlike swastikas, central Ju I, allover Ju I, S-scroll, U-scroll, rustic ice-ray, symmetrical ice-ray, and square and round. Each category is introduced in sections at the front. In addition, there is usually a short description for each design and every design is designated by name, location, and approximate date of construction. Professor Dye spent over 21 years studying and copying lattices all over China, and because of the ravages of time and changing cultural values, this collection can probably never be duplicated. Balanced, intricate, sometimes asymmetrical, usually harmonious, these lattice designs present a wealth of material for the Western commercial artist, textile designer, pattern-maker, and craftsman. Reflecting their Chinese heritage, these designs are universal and can be used almost anywhere.

A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture

Author : Ssu-ch eng Liang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture written by Ssu-ch eng Liang and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese Indigo Batik Designs

Author : Lu Pu
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486154130
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Indigo Batik Designs written by Lu Pu and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in tradition and history, the art of batik has been a deeply integrated facet of Chinese folk art for over 2,000 years. Using molten beeswax, skilled artisans paint patterns onto white cloth, which is then dipped into indigo dye. When the wax is removed with boiling water, unique designs of great harmony and beauty remain. The themes depicted in batik decoration have a strong native flavor, and are distinctive of the Chinese provinces and districts where they were created. In Huangping, mountains, trees, and birds are represented. In the Miao district, the concentration is on flowers and butterflies, while in the Yunnan Province, designs of peacocks, monkeys, and elephants abound. In this stunning pictorial archive, more than 110 authentic designs have been carefully reproduced from a rare, early collection of batik art. Collected from the remote areas of China's southwestern provinces, each decorative pattern is rich in beauty and meaning. This royalty-free volume will be an invaluable resource for artists, designers, craftspeople, and any lover of traditional Chinese folk art.

Chinese Architecture

Author : Sicheng Liang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Architecture written by Sicheng Liang and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Reflections of Early China

Author : Xiaoneng Yang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Reflections of Early China written by Xiaoneng Yang and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yang also introduces the new discovery of a previously unidentified medium that is located in the gray zone between writing and decoration, which he calls "pictorial inscriptions." Further, Yang discusses the sources, contexts, and correlation among the three media."--BOOK JACKET.

Native Sources for the History of Chinese Pictorial Art

Author : Friedrich Hirth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Sources for the History of Chinese Pictorial Art written by Friedrich Hirth and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese Houses

Author : Congzhou Chen
Publisher : Shanghai Book Traders
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Houses written by Congzhou Chen and published by Shanghai Book Traders. This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Step inside for a look at the fascinating houses of the Chinese. Stand outside, and you'll take in exteriors made with everything from stone to sand to animal hides. Whether they stand in bustling Beijing or on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, a look at the traditional residences of China will transport you to a different world and provide you with a firsthand view of Chinese life. Written by noted Chinese architects and writers, this comprehensive architectural tour presents a window into the history of Chinese culture." "In Chinese Houses hundreds of full-color photographs share space along with the diagrams and floor plans. As a whole this meticulously constructed book will open doors of understanding for anyone interested in learning more about Chinese culture."--Jacket.