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Autore |
Clarke David |
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Chinese art and its encounter with the world [[electronic resource] ] : negotiating alterity in art and its historical interpretation / / David Clarke |
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Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, 2011 |
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988-220-979-3 |
988-8053-84-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (271 p.) : some color illustrations ; 26 cm |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Art, Chinese |
Art - China - History |
East and West - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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pt. I. Trajectories : Chinese artists and the West -- pt. II. Imported genres -- pt. III. Returning home : cities between China and the world. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. I. Trajectories : Chinese artists and the West -- Chitqua : a Chinese artist in eighteenth-century London -- Cross-cultural dialogue and artistic innovation : Teng Baiye and Mark Tobey -- pt. II. Imported genres -- Iconicity and indexicality : the body in Chinese art -- Abstraction and modern Chinese art -- pt. III. Returning home : cites between China and the world -- Illuminating facades : looking at post-colonial Macau -- The haunted city : Hong Kong and its urban others in the postcolonial era. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book examines Chinese art from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, beginning with discussion of a Chinese portrait modeler from Canton who traveled to London in 1769, and ending with an analysis of art and visual culture in post-colonial Hong Kong. By means of a series of six closely-focused case studies, often deliberately introducing non-canonical or previously marginalized aspects of Chinese visual culture, it analyzes Chinese art's encounter with the broader world, and in particular with the West. Offering more than a simple charting of influences, it uncovers a pattern of richly mutual |
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