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Book Great Chinese Painters of the Ming and Ch ing Dynasties  XV to XVIII Centuries

Download or read book Great Chinese Painters of the Ming and Ch ing Dynasties XV to XVIII Centuries written by Wildenstein and Company (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Between Two Cultures

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  • Author : Wen Fong
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 0870999842
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Between Two Cultures written by Wen Fong and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2001 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive assemblage in the West of paintings on this subject, the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection comprises works in the classical Chinese medium of ink on paper and in the traditional formats of scrolls, album leaves, and fans."--BOOK JACKET.

Book From Object to Concept

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  • Author : Stacey Pierson
  • Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 9888139835
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book From Object to Concept written by Stacey Pierson and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ming porcelain is widely regarded among the world's finest cultural treasures. From ordinary household items patiently refined for imperial use, porcelain became a dynamic force in domestic consumption in China and a valuable commodity in export trade. In the modern era, it has reached unprecedented heights in art auctions and other avenues of global commerce. This book examines the impact of consumption on the evolution of porcelain and its transformation into a foreign cultural icon. The book begins with an examination of ways in which porcelain was appreciated in Ming China, followed by a discussion of encounters with Ming porcelain in several global regions including Europe and the Americas. The book also looks at the invention of the phrase and concept of 'the Ming vase' in English-speaking cultures and concludes with a history of the transformation of Ming porcelain into works of art.

Book Oriental Studies

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  • Author : Freer Gallery of Art
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Oriental Studies written by Freer Gallery of Art and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recent Acquisitions

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  • Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 0870995049
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Recent Acquisitions written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1987 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peach Blossom Spring

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  • Author : Richard M. Barnhart
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 0870993585
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Peach Blossom Spring written by Richard M. Barnhart and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1983 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beauty Revealed

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Beauty Revealed written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together some of the worlds finest "meiren hua" (paintings of beautiful women), a genre of Chinese painting spanning the countrys last imperial dynasty (1644-1912). Often dismissed as decorative or misinterpreted as highbrow portraits of ladies, these enigmatic and relatively unexamined works are the subject of close scholarly scrutiny in this publication.

Book The Dictionary of Art

Download or read book The Dictionary of Art written by Jane Turner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of World Art

Download or read book Encyclopedia of World Art written by Bernard S. Myers and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subject matter consists of representational arts in the broadest sense, architecture, sculpture, painting, and other man-made objects with no limits as to time, place, or cultural environment.

Book The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth Century China

Download or read book The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth Century China written by Roslyn Lee Hammers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the agrarian labor genre paintings based on the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were commissioned by successive Chinese emperors. Furthermore, this book analyzes the genre’s imagery as well as the poems in their historical context and explains how the paintings contributed to distinctively cosmopolitan Qing imagery that also drew upon European visual styles. Roslyn Lee Hammers contends that technologically-informed imagery was not merely didactic imagery to teach viewers how to grow rice or produce silk. The Qing emperors invested in paintings of labor to substantiate the permanence of the dynasty and to promote the well-being of the people under Manchu governance. The book includes English translations of the poems of the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving as well as other documents that have not been brought together in translation. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Chinese history, Chinese studies, history of science and technology, book history, labor history, and Qing history.

Book A Decade of Collecting

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  • Author : Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Avery Brundage Collection
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book A Decade of Collecting written by Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Avery Brundage Collection and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hills Beyond a River

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  • Author : James Cahill
  • Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Hills Beyond a River written by James Cahill and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 1976 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Friendship in Art

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  • Author : Claire Roberts
  • Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
  • Release : 2010-06-01
  • ISBN : 9888028405
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Friendship in Art written by Claire Roberts and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents in letters, photos, and paintings a special friendship between two highly creative individuals who helped shape Chinese culture in the twentieth century --- the revered traditional painter Huang Binhong (1865-1955) and the young, cosmopolitan critic and translator Fou Lei (1908-66). As one of China's oldest and most distinguished artists in the 1940s and 1950s, Huang Binhong was committed to artistic continuity and reinvigoration of brush-and-ink painting. Fou Lei was a child of the New Culture Movement which repudiated many literati traditions, but reached out to Huang Binhong to discuss the possibilities for contemporary Chinese art amid the tides of war and Communist dictates of socialist realism as the guiding priority for cultural workers. Both were cultural mediators and translators of ideas and cultural expressions. Both had deep appreciation of the common origins of calligraphy and painting, rendering complex feelings with brush and ink. Their intimate artistic conversations over more than a decade depict their alienation and uncertainty amid China's turbulent cultural politics.

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Where Dragon Veins Meet

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  • Author : Stephen H. Whiteman
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2020-01-09
  • ISBN : 0295745819
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Where Dragon Veins Meet written by Stephen H. Whiteman and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 On the Brinck Book Award, presented by the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning An auspicious political landscape, represented in image and text In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court’s Inner Mongolian allies. The Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat (Bishu Shanzhuang) was strategically located at the node of mountain “veins” through which the Qing empire’s geomantic energy was said to flow. At this site, from late spring through early autumn, the Kangxi emperor presided over rituals of intimacy and exchange that celebrated his rule: garden tours, banquets, entertainments, and gift giving. Stephen Whiteman draws on resources and methods from art and architectural history, garden and landscape history, early modern global history, and historical geography to reconstruct the Mountain Estate as it evolved under Kangxi, illustrating the importance of landscape as a medium for ideological expression during the early Qing and in the early modern world more broadly. Examination of paintings, prints, historical maps, newly created maps informed by GIS-based research, and personal accounts reveals the significance of geographic space and its representation in the negotiation of Qing imperial ideology. The first monograph in any language to focus solely on the art and architecture of the Kangxi court, Where Dragon Veins Meet illuminates the court’s production and deployment of landscape as a reflection of contemporary concerns and offers new insight into the sources and forms of Qing power through material expressions. Art History Publication Initiative

Book An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth Century Chinese Artists

Download or read book An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth Century Chinese Artists written by Ellen Johnston Laing and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the twentieth century, studies in Chinese painting history have been greatly aided by several major lists of Chinese artists and their works. Published between 1956 and 1980, these lists were limited to Imperial China. The current index covers the period from 1912 to around 1980. It includes the names of approximately 3,500 traditional-style artists along with lists of their works, reproduced in some 264 monographs, books, journals, and catalogs published from the 1920s to around 1980. With a few exceptions, artists working after 1949 outside continental China are excluded. Revised Edition, 1998; first published by the Asian Studies Program, University of Oregon, 1984.