Chinoiseries
Author : Mary A. Vance
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Mary A. Vance
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Bernd H. Dams
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Dawn Jacobson
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,96 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 : Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004387838
In Beyond Chinoiserie, historians of art, literature, and material culture address artistic relations between China and the West during the nineteenth century, a time when Western powers’ attempts at extending a sphere of influence in China led to increasingly hostile interactions.
Author : Anne Witchard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,53 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 Veronica Witchard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 135187943X
Focusing on Thomas Burke's bestselling collection of short stories, Limehouse Nights (1916), this book contextualises the burgeoning cult of Chinatown in turn-of-the-century London. London's 'Chinese Quarter' owed its notoriety to the Yellow Perilism that circulated in Britain at the fin-de-siècle, a demonology of race and vice masked by outward concerns about degenerative metropolitan blight and imperial decline. Anne Witchard's interdisciplinary approach enables her to displace the boundaries that have marked Chinese studies, literary studies, critiques of Orientalism and empire, gender studies, and diasporic research, as she reassesses this critical moment in London's history. In doing so, she brings attention to Burke's hold on popular and critical audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. A much-admired and successful author in his time, Burke in his Chinatown stories destabilizes social orthodoxies in highly complex and contradictory ways. For example, his writing was formative in establishing the 'queer spell' that the very mention of Limehouse would exert on the public imagination, and circulating libraries responded to Burke's portrayal of a hybrid East End where young Cockney girls eat Chow Mein with chopsticks in the local cafés and blithely gamble their housekeeping money at Fan Tan by banning Limehouse Nights. Witchard's book forces us to rethink Burke's influence and shows that China and chinoiserie served as mirrors that reveal the cultural disquietudes of western art and culture.
Author :
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 1970
Category :
ISBN : 0870990101
Author : Joanna Banham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3392 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136787577
From ancient Greece to Frank Lloyd Wright, studiola to smoking rooms, chimney boards to cocktail cabinets, and papier-mâché to tubular steel, the Encyclopedia of Interior Design provides a history of interior decoration and design from ancient times to the present day. It includes more than 500 illustrated entries covering a variety of subjects ranging from the work of the foremost designers, to the origins and function of principal rooms and furnishing types, as well as surveys of interior design by period and nationality all prepared by an international team of experts in the field. Entries on individuals include a biography, a chronological list of principal works or career summary, a primary and secondary bibliography, and a signed critical essay of 800 to 1500 words on the individual's work in interior design. The style and topic entries contain an identifying headnote, a guide to main collections, a list of secondary sources, and a signed critical essay.
Author : Avery Library
Publisher :
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
1977 to present. Citations to articles from more than 1,000 periodicals in all Western languages, including all major architectural journals published in the U.S. and Great Britain, as well as most South American, European and Japanese architecture-related periodicals.
Author : Boom Magazine Asia
Publisher : Boom Magazine Asia
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2015-05-07
Category :
ISBN :
Welcome to May, mes chéris. Le French May has come around again, so, naturally, this month is absolutely rammed with things to do - check out our calendar for the month (P4) in which we’ve covered the best gigs, art shows, club nights and even film releases. On our cover we have French-Vietnamese hip hop instrumentalist Onra, who tells us his story in A-Side (P16), and Melbourne cool kid Courtney Barnett chats to us about her phenomenal new album in B-Side (P20). Oliver Clasper gets up close and personal with house music legend Marshall Jefferson before his set at Club 18 in On The Decks (P32), and our second Aussie act of the issue is up and coming soul act Hiatus Kaiyote (P34). As always, check out our music recommendations in Mixer (P50). French urban artist Invader takes over Hong Kong for the fourth time in Flipside (P24), and we ditch our summer diets in Boom’s Kitchen (P28) with a hearty battle between three of HK’s most popular steak-frites restaurants. Looking for somewhere different to get away? Peruse our guide to the best spots in Yogyakarta for a scenic break (P44), and get your monthly Zodiac fix from Thierry Chow (P62). Our Hidden Tracks section journeys through beauty, drink and music; be sure to check out Sync Sing Sin’s interview with Rinse FM producer Scratcha DVA in Notes from the Underground (P58). It’s going to be a fantastic month - see you around, BOOMers!