Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China - Rilegato

Clunas, Craig

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ISBN 10: 0691057613 ISBN 13: 9780691057613

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

The sixteenth century in China was a period of rapid and unprecedented economic expansion. The period also saw a parallel expansion in the sphere of cultural production, as a growing class of consumers of luxury goods benefited from the formation of one of the classic early modern consumer societies.Pictures were a major source of consumable luxury at this period: pictures not only in the form of independently circulating images classifiable as "art," but also in the form of wall decoration; pictures in books, prints, and maps; on ceramics and lacquer boxes; on textile furnishings; and even on the dress of the prosperous. Artifacts previously decorated with formal patterns, or with pictures of plants and animals only, now bore landscape scenes, representations of historical characters and incidents, and scenes from literature, often closely related to the world of the illustrated book.This impressively illustrated and accessibly written book will be the first attempt to survey this vast array of images in all its aspects, providing a stimulating and innovative point of entry to Chinese history.Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China will interest students of China's history and culture and anyone concerned with theories of visuality.

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Contenuti:

Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Positions of the Pictorial
3 Representing the Triad
4 Practices of Vision
5 The Work of Art in the Age of Woodblock Reproduction
6 Fears of the Image
7 Conclusion
References
Bibliography
Picture Acknowledgements
Index

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0691057613
• ISBN 13: 9780691057613
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 221