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UNINA9910828721303321 |
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Autore |
Hay Jonathan <1956-> |
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Titolo |
Sensuous surfaces : the decorative object in early modern China / / Jonathan Hay |
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Honolulu, : University of Hawaii Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-93479-1 |
9786612934797 |
1-86189-846-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (440 pages) : color illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Decorative arts - China - History - Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912 |
Art objects, Chinese |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-422) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Sensuous Surfaces Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Introduction; Part 1: The Decorative Object; 1. Decoration as Luxury; 2. The Object Thinks With Us; 3. Surface, Affect, Metaphor; Part II: The Surfacescape's Resources; 4. Monochrome Smoothness; 5. Material Patterning; 6. Formal Pattern; 7. Depiction; 8. Inscription; 9. Fictive Surface; 10. Diversified Surface; Part III: From Surfacescapes to Objectscapes; 11. Layering; 12. Object Landscapes; 13. The Atmospherics of Surface; 14. The Erotic Economy of Decoration; References; Select Bibliography; Character List for Chinese; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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?Sensuous Surfaces is a systematic introduction to the decorative arts in Ming and Qing dynasty China. Jonathan Hay's analysis takes in both material and technique, and also issues of patronage and taste, which together formed a loose system of informal rules that affected every level of decoration in early modern China, from an individual object to the arrangement of an entire residential interior. By engaging the actual and metaphoric potential of surface, this system guided the production and use of the decorative arts during a period of explosive growth, which started in the late sixt |
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