Garden, Art and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints
Author : T. June Li
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2016-08
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ISBN : 9780873282673
Author : T. June Li
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2016-08
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ISBN : 9780873282673
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Delegated legislation
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Author : Nicholas Menzies
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0295749474
China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written by keen observers of nature. Until the late nineteenth century, however, standard practice did not include deploying a set of diagnostic tools using a common terminology and methodology to identify and describe new and unknown species or properties. Ordering the Myriad Things relates how traditional knowledge of plants in China gave way to scientific botany between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, when plants came to be understood in a hierarchy of taxonomic relationships to other plants and within a broader ecological context. This shift not only expanded the universe of plants beyond the familiar to encompass unknown species and geographies but fueled a new knowledge of China itself. Nicholas K. Menzies highlights the importance of botanical illustration as a tool for recording nature—contrasting how images of plants were used in the past to the conventions of scientific drawing and investigating the transition of “traditional” systems of organization, classification, observation, and description to “modern” ones.
Author : Linda Weintraub
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520273613
This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.
Author : Chinghsin Wu
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520299825
This significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a “parallel modernism” that was visually similar to Euroamerican modernism, but developed according to its own internal logic. Using the art and thought of prominent Japanese modern artist Koga Harue (1895–1933) as a lens to understand this process, Chinghsin Wu explores how watercolor, cubism, expressionism, and surrealism emerged and developed in Japan in ways that paralleled similar trends in the west, but also rejected and diverged from them. In this first English-language book on Koga Harue, Wu provides close readings of virtually all of the artist’s major works and provides unprecedented access to the critical writing about modernism in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s through primary source documentation, including translations of period art criticism, artist statements, letters, and journals.
Author : Jean Gordon Lee
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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Author : Xiaoqing Ye
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0892641622
Brings to life the visual culture of the "nightless city," late nineteenth-century Shanghai, through analyses of more than one hundred drawn depictions
Author : Jörg Quenzer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110384825
Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of ‘manuscript studies’ has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.
Author : Jeremy Clarke
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Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 9789888268443
How are Chinese Catholic identities expressed through images? In this cross-disciplinary study which engages with history, theology and art, Fr. Jeremy Clarke explores paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and the communities that produced them over several centuries. He argues for the emergence of distinctly Chinese Catholic identities as artistic representations of the Virgin Mary sometime absorbed representations of such Chinese figures as Guanyin while at other times were diluted by Western influences following the influx of European missionaries. The book offers a new view of Cathol.
Author : Stephen Houston
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606067451
The first study devoted to a single sculptor in ancient America, as understood through four unprovenanced masterworks traced to a small sector of Guatemala. In 1950, Dana Lamb, an explorer of some notoriety, stumbled on a Maya ruin in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala. Lamb failed to record the location of the site he called Laxtunich, turning his find into the mystery at the center of this book. The lintels he discovered there, long since looted, are probably of a set with two others that are among the masterworks of Maya sculpture from the Classic period. Using fieldwork, physical evidence, and Lamb’s expedition notes, the authors identify a small area with archaeological sites where the carvings were likely produced. Remarkably, the vividly colored lintels, replete with dynastic and cosmic information, can be assigned to a carver, Mayuy, who sculpted his name on two of them. To an extent nearly unique in ancient America, Mayuy can be studied over time as his style developed and his artistic ambition grew. An in-depth analysis of Laxtunich Lintel 1 examines how Mayuy grafted celestial, seasonal, and divine identities onto a local magnate and his overlord from the kingdom of Yaxchilan, Mexico. This volume contextualizes the lintels and points the way to their reprovenancing and, as an ultimate aim, repatriation to Guatemala.