Author : John Lust
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004104723
The book is a first attempt to present the Chinese popular blockprint illustration for display, its culture, history and workshops. It shows how it blossomed out in the urban and rural scenes of recent centuries, finally to succumb to nationalism and revolution.
Author : John Lust
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9004490906
Chinese Popular Prints ventures into the world of Chinese blockprint illustration that had its assured niche in the rich history of Chinese popular culture from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. These prints were not considered high art in China, but were produced for the urban and rural populations. The book deals with all aspects of the Chinese popular print. In the first two chapters its invention, origins, powerful traditions and its history are described. Classical art and the Ming illustrated book were important impetuses. Three major centres of north and central China emerged. Finally the popular print took on something of the roles of the modern cinema or television. In the following four chapters the main themes are: the printmakers and printshops; society, symbolism and visual pun; categories of popular prints and their display; technical terms. A description of the workshops and their techniques, figure drawing and colouring, gives a good insight in the technical side of the print. A varied popular culture and a certain realism are strands in it, as are spirit protection of the house, recalls of the past, hopes for the future, the hold of the theatre, etc. Two elaborate appendices provide much detailed information about persons, symbols, as well as about some images in the lore of the print. A special section of 28 illustrations (8 full colour) demonstrates the potentialities of the Chinese blockprint illustration.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release :
Category : Paper work, Chinese
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 19??
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Ellen Johnston Laing
Publisher : U of M Center for Chinese Studies
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN :
Traditional woodblock prints preserve a Chinese folk art that has now nearly vanished. This book explores and explains the artistic and aesthetic bases of popular prints revealed in eighty-four late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prints belonging to the London-based Muban Foundation. Woodblock printing was the principal method of producing inexpensive and colorful single-sheet images for mass consumption in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China. Prints of this type are known today as "New Year pictures" because the demand for them peaked at New Year's time. However, the term "popular print" more accurately describes these works, whose subjects include deities and tutelary spirits, illustrations to stories and operas, and even contemporary political or revolutionary messages. The emphasis on the artistic aspects of these prints makes this publication uniquely appealing to Chinese art historians but also to those interested in Chinese anthropology, popular religion, Chinese and other folk art, and traditional crafts. Ellen J. Laing received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She was Maude I. Kerns Distinguished Professor of Oriental Art, University of Oregon and is currently Research Associate at the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan. She has published numerous scholarly articles, books, and reference works on Chinese art.
Author : Maria Rudova
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Author : Maxwell K. Hearn
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588392813
"Together the text and illustrations gradually reveal many of the major themes and characteristics of Chinese painting. To "read" these works is to enter a dialogue with the past. Slowly perusing a scroll or album, one shares an intimate experience that has been repeated over the centuries. And it is through such readings that meaning is gradually revealed."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Xiaobing Tang
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781930561144
Catalogue accompanying exhibition, University of Michigan Museum of Art, July 16-October 23, 2011.
Author : British Museum
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN :
The British Museum holds one of the finest collections of Chinese prints outside Asia, with particular strength in the modern period. This book features 100 examples from the British Museums collection. It also explains the features of each print, including techniques, aesthetic principles and cultural context. Full description
Author : Craig Clunas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691171939
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. Richly illustrated, 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.
