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200 10$aSensuous surfaces$b[electronic resource] $ethe decorative object in early modern China /$fJonathan Hay
210   $aHonolulu $cUniversity of Hawai?i Press$dc2010
215   $a1 online resource (442 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 417-422) and index.
327   $aSensuous 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
327   $aPhoto AcknowledgementsIndex
330   $a?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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