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Book Chinese Paintings from the Shanghai Museum  1851 1911

Download or read book Chinese Paintings from the Shanghai Museum 1851 1911 written by Guolin Shan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th century Shanghai was a prosperous center of trade with the West, and external influences combined with established cultural traditions to ensure that a lively artistic scene developed. This book is a rare opportunity to discover some of the exquisite paintings from the Shanghai Museum. Superb color illustrations accompany entries on individual artists. Many of the paintings represented were created for the home market rather than for export and reveal diverse and unusual views of China. The versatility and beauty of styles and composition provide a unique view into the cultural life of the city, making this book one to treasure. (National Museums of Scotland)

Book Chinese Paintings from the Shanghai Museum 1851 1911

Download or read book Chinese Paintings from the Shanghai Museum 1851 1911 written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting

Download or read book Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting written by Chia-Ling Yang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pursuit of antiquity was important for scholarly artists in constructing their knowledge of history and cultural identity in late imperial China. By examining versatile trends within paintings in modern China, this book questions the extent to which historical relics have been used to represent the ethnic identity of modern Chinese art. In doing so, this book asks: did the antiquarian movements ultimately serve as a deliberate tool for re-writing Chinese art history in modern China? In searching for the public meaning of inventive private collecting activity, Appropriating Antiquity in Modern Chinese Painting draws on various modes of artistic creation to address how the use of antiquities in early 20th-century Chinese art both produced and reinforced the imaginative links between ancient civilization and modern lives in the late Qing dynasty. Further exploring how these social and cultural transformations were related to the artistic exchanges happening at the time between China, Japan and the West, the book successfully analyses how modernity was translated and appropriated at the turn of the 20th century, throughout Asia and further afield.

Book On Telling Images of China

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shane McCausland
  • Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 9888139436
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book On Telling Images of China written by Shane McCausland and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume address a diverse range of issues in China’s narrative art and visual culture mainly from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) to the present. These studies attend to the complex ways in which images circulate in pictorial media and across boundaries between ‘high art’ and popular culture—images in paintings, prints, stone engravings and posters, as well as in film and video art. In addition, the authors examine the roles of ancient exemplary stories and textual narratives, as well as their reiteration in the visual arts in early modern and modern social and political contexts. The volume is divided into three sections: Representing Paradigms, Interpreting Literary Themes and Narratives, and the Medium and Modernity. While the essays in each section deal with concerns in the field of China’s art history, an editors’ introduction serves to position the topic of narrative art and to introduce definitions and genre issues which run through the book. As a whole, the volume invites reflection on the intrinsic nature of narratives and their pictorial lives, and presents new research which challenges established views and paradigms.

Book Art Worlds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roberta Wue
  • Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
  • Release : 2014-12-09
  • ISBN : 9888208462
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Art Worlds written by Roberta Wue and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of Shanghai in the late nineteenth century gave rise to an exciting new art world in which a flourishing market in popular art became a highly visible part of the treaty port’s commercialized culture. Art Worlds examines the relationship between the city’s visual artists and their urban audiences. Through a discussion of images ranging from fashionable painted fans to lithograph-illustrated magazines, the book explores how popular art intersected with broader cultural trends. It also investigates the multiple roles played by the modern Chinese artist as image-maker, entrepreneur, celebrity, and urban sojourner. Focusing on industrially produced images, mass advertisements, and other hitherto neglected sources, the book offers a new interpretation of late Qing visual culture at a watershed moment in the history of modern Chinese art. Art Worlds will be of interest to scholars of art history and to anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modern China. “By focusing on objects, sites, social networks, and technologies, this elegantly conceived book enriches our understanding of art production and consumption in nineteenth-century Shanghai. The author makes masterful use of newspapers, guidebooks, diaries, and advertisements—as well as paintings—to present readers with the compelling story of a city and its artists.” —Tobie Meyer-Fong, author of What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China and Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou “Rich in findings, forensic in visual analysis and—not least—elegantly crafted, Wue’s book on painting, printing and the social worlds of art in late-Qing Shanghai is an exemplary contribution. A must-read volume.” —Shane McCausland, author of Zhao Mengfu: Calligraphy and Painting for Khubilai’s China

Book Shanghai

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Knight
  • Publisher : Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
  • Release : 2010-03-15
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Shanghai written by Michael Knight and published by Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of Shanghai viewed through its dynamic visual culture

Book The Story of Yeh Chi Wei

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  • Author : Chi Wei Yeh
  • Publisher : National Gallery Singapore
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Story of Yeh Chi Wei written by Chi Wei Yeh and published by National Gallery Singapore. This book was released on 2010 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays in volume one examine his contributions and the influence of diverse cultural and historical resources in his paintings. There are also biographical portraits by family and former students. The works in the exhibition are showcased in 120 colour plates. Volume two, contained in the enclosed CDR, consists of the essays in volume one in Chinese, historical publications and relevant images. There are eight essays by Yeh Chi Wei written and published between 1960 and 1972. 18 articles by various writers on Yeh Chi Wei and the Ten Men Group, written and published between 1961 and 2010, have also been reprinted. All these essays, articles and publications are accompanied by new English translations. Past exhibition catalogues on Yeh and the Ten Men artists have also been reproduced. Volume two includes images of artefacts and books from the artist's own collections"--P. 4 of cover.

Book Between the Thunder and the Rain

Download or read book Between the Thunder and the Rain written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographic Guide to Government Publications 2001

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Government Publications 2001 written by GK Hall and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treasures from the Shanghai Museum

Download or read book Treasures from the Shanghai Museum written by 上海博物館 and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Birth of Landscape Painting in China

Download or read book The Birth of Landscape Painting in China written by Michael Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Dress

Download or read book Chinese Dress written by Valery Garrett and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over 450 archival photographs and line drawings, Chinese Dress traces the evolution of Chinese clothing from court and formal costumes to the fashions of modern China. A comprehensive and sumptuously illustrated book, Chinese Dress is the essential reference for costume historians, fashion designers and collectors, as well as lovers of beautiful clothes everywhere. Chapters include: Dress of the Qing Manchu Rulers 1644-1911 Dress of the Manchu Consorts 1644-1911 Attire of Mandarins and Merchants Attire of Chinese Women Republican Dress 1912-1949 Clothing of the Lower Classes Clothing for Children Dress in New China 1950-2006 From Imperial robes to foot binding to the cheongsam, Chinese Dress spotlights traditional Chinese dress against a background of historical, cultural and social change, opening a fascinating window for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of China, Chinese culture and Chinese fashion history.

Book Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum  Oxford

Download or read book Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford written by S. J. Vainker and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the extraordinary works in the 1st gallery in the UK to be devoted permanently to the display of Chinese paintings.

Book Chinese Art

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  • Author : Maxwell K. Hearn
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 0870999834
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Chinese Art written by Maxwell K. Hearn and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2001 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's entry into the modern era was shaped by unprecedented internal turmoil and external pressures, which brought a forceful end to two millennia of imperial rule and cultural insularity. The essays in this volume offer a variety of perspectives on the impact of the West on indigenous literature, architecture, painting, and calligraphy during this period (ca. 1860-1980). This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art", held at the museum from 30th January-19th August 2001.

Book Early Chinese Jades

Download or read book Early Chinese Jades written by Una Pope-Hennessy and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Orchid Pavilion Gathering

Download or read book The Orchid Pavilion Gathering written by Marshall Pei-sheng Wu and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: