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Qing Encounters - Artistic Exchanged between China and the West
Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu
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Description for Qing Encounters - Artistic Exchanged between China and the West
Paperback. Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides. By considering this reciprocity from both Eastern and Western perspectives, this book offers a new and nuanced understanding of this critical period. Editor(s): Ding, Ning. Num Pages: 316 pages, 62 colour and 46 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 257 x 20. Weight in Grams: 966.
Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volume reveal the extent to which images, artifacts, and natural specimens were traded and copied, and how these materials inflected both cultures' visions of novelty and pleasure, battle and power, and ways of seeing and representing. Artists and craftspeople on both continents borrowed and adapted forms, techniques, and modes of representation, producing deliberate, meaningful, and complex hybrid creations. By considering this reciprocity ... Read more
Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volume reveal the extent to which images, artifacts, and natural specimens were traded and copied, and how these materials inflected both cultures' visions of novelty and pleasure, battle and power, and ways of seeing and representing. Artists and craftspeople on both continents borrowed and adapted forms, techniques, and modes of representation, producing deliberate, meaningful, and complex hybrid creations. By considering this reciprocity ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
961g
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Santa Monica CA, United States
ISBN
9781606064573
SKU
V9781606064573
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99-20
About Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu is a professor of art history and museum studies and director of graduate studies in Museum Professions at Seton Hall University. Ning Ding is a professor of art history and theory and vice-dean at the School of Arts, Peking University.
Reviews for Qing Encounters - Artistic Exchanged between China and the West
If modernity can be considered in terms of intensified transcultural exchanges, the volume helps to reset its origins for China and the West to at least one hundred years before the accustomed chronology. . . . Overcoming the traditional bias towards the fine arts in art-historical writing, volume moves easily between painting, print, architecture, textiles, interior decoration and ... Read more