Pictures And Visuality In Early Modern China
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Pictures And Visuality In Early Modern China
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Author : Craig Clunas
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2006-03-01
Pictures And Visuality In Early Modern China written by Craig Clunas and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-01 with History categories.
Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China is not simply a survey of sixteenth-century images, but rather, a thorough and thoughtful examination of visual culture in China's Ming Dynasty, one that considers images wherever they appeared—not only paintings, but also illustrated books, maps, ceramic bowls, lacquered boxes, painted fans, and even clothing and tomb pictures. Clunas's theory of visuality incorporates not only the image and the object upon which it is placed but also the culture which produced and purchased it. Economic changes in sixteenth-century China—the rapid expansion of trade routes and a growing class of consumers—are thus intricately bound up with the evolution of the image itself. Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China will be a touchstone for students of Chinese history, art, and culture.
Pictures Visuality In Early Modern China
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Author : EBSCO Publishing (Firm)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Pictures Visuality In Early Modern China written by EBSCO Publishing (Firm) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Superfluous Things
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Author : Craig Clunas
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2004-05-31
Superfluous Things written by Craig Clunas and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-31 with Social Science categories.
Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes “superfluous things”—the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China—and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society.
Empire Of Great Brightness
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Author : Craig Clunas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Empire Of Great Brightness written by Craig Clunas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art, Chinese categories.
History of art / art & design styles.
Visualizing Modern China
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Author : James A. Cook
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2014-09-26
Visualizing Modern China written by James A. Cook and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-26 with History categories.
Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750–Present offers a sophisticated yet accessible interpretation of modern Chinese history through visual imagery. With rich illustrations and a companion website, it is an ideal textbook for college-level courses on modern Chinese history and on modern visual culture. The introduction provides a methodological framework and historical overview, while the chronologically arranged chapters use engaging case studies to explore important themes. Topics include: Qing court ritual, rebellion and war, urban/rural relations, art and architecture, sports, the Chinese diaspora, state politics, film propaganda and censorship, youth in the Cultural Revolution, environmentalism, and Internet culture. Companion website: http://visualizingmodernchina.org
Elegant Debts
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Author : Craig Clunas
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2004-06-30
Elegant Debts written by Craig Clunas and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-30 with Art categories.
This book takes an innovative approach to one of the great figures of Chinese culture, the writer and painter Wen Zhengming (1470–1559). Renowned as one of the great “scholar painters” of the Ming dynasty, Wen was enmeshed in a complex web of social obligations, his “elegant debts” as he called them, which led to many of his most celebrated works. Using an unprecedented quantity of primary sources for his life and work, Elegant Debts looks at the ways in which social obligation and gift exchange were central to personal and individual identity in the Ming period. The book also examines Wen’s family relationships, his friends, mentors, and pupils, his sense of a distinct local identity, and the interplay of national and regional politics with the achievements of his long life. It uses the insights of a range of scholarship—art history, social and literary history, and anthropology—to show how “self” was constructed in Ming China. In doing so, it makes a major contribution toward a more diverse art history that is less dependent on European conceptions of artists and their work. Craig Clunas has published extensively in the field, and is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading scholars of Ming culture. Featuring many images of the work of one of China’s major painters, this book is accessible to all who are interested in China’s culture and history, as well as to students and scholars of art history and the history of culture.
Screen Of Kings
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Author : Craig Clunas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-08-31
Screen Of Kings written by Craig Clunas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-31 with Art categories.
Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy – relatives of the emperors – in Ming dynasty China (1368–1644). Through an analysis of their patronage of architecture, calligraphy, painting and other art forms, and through a study of the contents of their splendid and recently excavated tombs, this innovative study puts the aristocracy back at the heart of accounts of China’s culture, from which they have been excluded until very recently. Screen of Kings challenges much of the received wisdom about Ming China. Craig Clunas sheds new light on many familiar artworks, as well as works that have never before been reproduced. New archaeological discoveries have furnished the author with evidence of the lavish and spectacular lifestyles of these provincial princes and demonstrate how central the imperial family was to the high culture of the Ming era. Written by the leading specialist in the art and culture of the Ming period, this book illuminates a key aspect of China’s past, and will significantly alter our understanding of the Ming. It will be enjoyed by anyone with a serious interest in the history and art of this great civilization.
Women And The Literary World In Early Modern China 1580 1700
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Author : Daria Berg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-24
Women And The Literary World In Early Modern China 1580 1700 written by Daria Berg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-24 with Social Science categories.
Exploring the works of key women writers within their cultural, artistic and socio-political contexts, this book considers changes in the perception of women in early modern China. The sixteenth century brought rapid developments in technology, commerce and the publishing industry that saw women emerging in new roles as both consumers and producers of culture. This book examines the place of women in the cultural elite and in society more generally, reconstructing examples of particular women’s personal experiences, and retracing the changing roles of women from the late Ming to the early Qing era (1580-1700). Providing rich detail of exceptionally fine, interesting and engaging literary works, this book opens fascinating new windows onto the lives, dreams, nightmares, anxieties and desires of the authors and the world out of which they emerged.
The Novel And Theatrical Imagination In Early Modern China
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Author : Chun Mei
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-01-07
The Novel And Theatrical Imagination In Early Modern China written by Chun Mei and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-07 with History categories.
Using the concept of theatricality to study Water Margin and Journey to the West, this study illustrates how writing and reading in early modern China became fused with a theatrical imagination in response to destabilizing social and political forces.
Mapping Early Modern Japan
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Author : Marcia Yonemoto
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-04-21
Mapping Early Modern Japan written by Marcia Yonemoto and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-21 with History categories.
This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes—including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias—to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial publishers, and the Shogunal government in helping to fashion a new awareness of space and place in this period. Her impressively researched study shows how spatial and geographical knowledge confined to elites in early Japan became more generalized, flexible, and widespread in the Tokugawa period. In the broadest sense, her book grasps the elusive processes through which people came to name, to know, and to interpret their worlds in narrative and visual forms.