Author : Dawn Jacobson
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 1999-03-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780714838366
Encompassing a wide range of interest areas from architecture to objets d'art, this sourcebook details the history of one of the most enduring styles, Chinoiserie.
Author : Aldous Bertram
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780865653849
A gorgeously illustrated survey of chinoiserie from the 18th century to today Chinoiserie is a term for Western art and design inspired by a largely invented vision of China. Marco Polo's sensational account of his visit to the exotic East in the 13th century sparked a fascination with China that reached a fever pitch in the 18th century and continues to this day. Art historian and artist Aldous Bertram has long been captivated by chinoiserie. Dragons & Pagodas is organized by theme, including porcelain, color and pattern, flora, fauna, and architecture. Each chapter is bursting with images ranging from grand European summer palaces and whimsical pagoda follies to charming details of screens, porcelain figurines, and ornate plasterwork. Complete with Bertram's own chinoiserie-inspired watercolors and collages, Dragons & Pagodas is an irresistible confection and an example of chinoiserie in its own right. -Cloth bound with edge stain
Author : Bernd H. Dams
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
This title presents 50 of Bernd Dams and Andrew Zega's expert watercolour illustrations, focusing on Chinoiseries pavilions. 36 of the works delve into the past, reconstructing exceptional historical structures from the 17th to the 19th century, with a predominately French style.
Author : Richard Hayman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 178442465X
Chinoiserie, a decorative style inspired by the art of the Far East, gripped Britain from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Despite taking its name from the French word for 'Chinese', the style also incorporated influences from other Asian countries, helping to shape the period's popular fantasy of the 'exotic Orient'. Wealthy consumers jostled to obtain imported wallpaper, lacquered cabinets and hand-painted porcelain, while domestic manufacturers such as Royal Worcester and Chippendale met demand with mass-produced items of their own. Though interest in the style waned as the Gothic Revival took hold, many examples of Chinoiserie have been preserved. In this beautifully illustrated book, Richard Hayman tells the story of this fascinating phenomenon, and explores the profound impact of Chinoiserie on the material culture of the West.
Author : Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004387838
The complex interweaving of different Western visions of China had a profound impact on artistic exchange between China and the West during the nineteenth century. Beyond Chinoiserie addresses the complexity of this exchange. While the playful Western “vision of Cathay” formed in the previous century continued to thrive, a more realistic vision of China was increasingly formed through travel accounts, paintings, watercolors, prints, book illustrations, and photographs. Simultaneously, the new discipline of sinology led to a deepening of the understanding of Chinese cultural history. Leading and emerging scholars in the fields of art history, literary studies and material culture, have authored the ten essays in this book, which deal with artistic relations between China and the West at a time when Western powers’ attempts to extend a sphere of influence in China led to increasingly hostile political interactions.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Art, Italian
ISBN :
Author : Oliver R. Impey
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Kadoi Yuka Kadoi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 1474469671
The Mongol invasion in the thirteenth century marked a new phase in the development of Islamic art. Trans-Eurasian exchanges of goods, people and ideas were encouraged on a large scale under the auspices of the Pax Mongolica. With the fascination of portable objects brought from China and Central Asia, a distinctive, hitherto unknown style - Islamic chinoiserie - was born in the art of Iran.Highly illustrated, Islamic Chinoiserie offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic interaction between Iran and China under the Mongols. By using rich visual materials from various media of decorative and pictorial arts - textiles, ceramics, metalwork and manuscript painting - the book illustrates the process of adoption and adaptation of Chinese themes in the art of Mongol-ruled Iran in a visually compelling way. The observation of this unique artistic phenomenon serves to promote the understanding of the artistic diversity of Islamic art in the Middle Ages.Key Features*Covers various media of decorative and pictorial arts from Iran, Central Asia and China*Deals with a diverse range of issues related to the East-West artistic relationship in the Middle Ages*Features in-depth studies of style, technique and iconography in Iranian art under the Mongols*Includes 125 illustrations, 24 in colour
Author : Anne Witchard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748690964
This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism. Traditionally defined as a decorative style that conjured a fanciful and idealized notion of China, chinoiserie was revived in in London's avant-garde circles, the Bloomsbury group, the Vorticists and others, who like their eighteenth-century forebears, turned to China as a cultural and aesthetic utopia. As part of Modernism's challenge to the 'universality' of so-called Western values and aesthetics, the turn to China would contribute much more than has been acknowledged to Modernist thinking. As these 10 new chapters demonstrate, China as an intellectual and aesthetic utopia dazzled intellectuals and aesthetes, at the same time the consumption of Chinese exoticism became commercialized. The essays show that from cutting-edge Modernist chic to mass culture and consumer products, the vogue for chinoiserie style and motifs permeated the art and design of the period. --Provided by publisher.
Author : Anne Witchard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748690972
This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism.
