Chinese art and its encounter with the world:
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Main Author: Clarke, David J., (David James) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press ©2011
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Trajectories: Chinese artists and the West; Chapter 1: Chitqua: A Chinese artist in eighteenth-century London; Chapter 2: Cross-cultural dialogue and artistic innovation: Teng Baiye and Mark Tobey; Part II: Imported genres; Chapter 3: Iconicity and indexicality: The body in Chinese art; Chapter 4: Abstraction and modern Chinese art; Part III: Returning home: Cites between China and the world; Chapter 5: Illuminating facades: Looking at postcolonial Macau; Chapter 6: The haunted city: Hong Kong and its urban others in the postcolonial era
The book offers a bridge into the critical understanding of modern Chinese art through its encounter with the world beyond China's borders. David Clarke demonstrates Chinese art's interconnections with Western cultures while exploring its inherited cultural traditions and internal historical change. The first section deals with the cross-cultural trajectories of individual Chinese artists who traveled from China to the West and then returned. The focus then shifts from the movement of individual artists between cultures to the process by which specific genres of Western art have been interpret
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 259 pages)
ISBN:9789888053841
9789888083060
9888053841
9888083066

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