Sheying
Title | Sheying PDF eBook |
Author | Clark Worswick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
This beautifully illustrated diary contains some of the finest paintings from the National Gallery's permanent collection. Featuring fifty-two carefully reproduced paintings in a week-to-view format, this diary highlights some of the finest Irish and European works on view in the Gallery.
Making History
Title | Making History PDF eBook |
Author | Wu Hung |
Publisher | Timezone 8 Limited |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9789889961701 |
This volume analyzes the cultural origins, precedents, influences and aspirations of the contemporary Chinese artists.
Utopian Ruins
Title | Utopian Ruins PDF eBook |
Author | Jie Li |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2020-10-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1478012765 |
In Utopian Ruins Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and its cataclysmic reverberations. Li proposes a critical framework for understanding the documentation and transmission of the socialist past that mediates between nostalgia and trauma, anticipation and retrospection, propaganda and testimony. Assembling each chapter like a memorial exhibit, Li explores how corporeal traces, archival documents, camera images, and material relics serve as commemorative media. Prison writings and police files reveal the infrastructure of state surveillance and testify to revolutionary ideals and violence, victimhood and complicity. Photojournalism from the Great Leap Forward and documentaries from the Cultural Revolution promoted faith in communist miracles while excluding darker realities, whereas Mao memorabilia collections, factory ruins, and memorials at trauma sites remind audiences of the Chinese Revolution's unrealized dreams and staggering losses.
A Story of Ruins
Title | A Story of Ruins PDF eBook |
Author | Wu Hung |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2013-02-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1861899769 |
This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions between China and the West since the eighteenth century. Wu Hung leads us through an array of traditional and contemporary visual materials, including painting, architecture, photography, prints, and cinema. A Story of Ruins shows how ruins are integral to traditional Chinese culture in both architecture and pictorial forms. It traces the changes in their representation over time, from indigenous methods of recording damage and decay in ancient China, to realistic images of architectural ruins in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the strong interest in urban ruins in contemporary China, as shown in the many artworks that depict demolished houses and decaying industrial sites. The result is an original interpretation of the development of Chinese art, as well as a unique contribution to global art history.
Historical Narratives of Global Modern Art
Title | Historical Narratives of Global Modern Art PDF eBook |
Author | Irina D. Costache |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2023-07-31 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1000898059 |
Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and perspectives excluded from the privileged and uncontested narrative of “isms.” This volume tells a worldwide story of art with expanded historical narratives of modernism. The chapters reflect on a wide range of issues, topics, and themes that have been marginalized or outright excluded from the canon of modern art. The goal of this book is to be a starting point for understanding modern art as a broad and inclusive field of study. The topics examine diverse formal expressions, innovative conceptual approaches, and various media used by artists around the world and forcefully acknowledge the connections between art, historical circumstances, political environments, and social issues such as gender, race, and social justice. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, imperial and colonial history, modernism, and globalization.
A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature
Title | A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Yingjin Zhang |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 2015-08-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1118451619 |
This wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now. It reviews major accomplishments of Chinese literary scholarship published in Chinese and English and brings attention to previously neglected, important areas. Offers the most thorough and concise coverage of modern Chinese literature to date, drawing attention to previously neglected areas such as late Qing, Sinophone, and ethnic minority literature Several chapters explore literature in relation to Sinophone geopolitics, regional culture, urban culture, visual culture, print media, and new media The introduction and two chapters furnish overviews of the institutional development of modern Chinese literature in Chinese and English scholarship since the mid-twentieth century Contributions from leading literary scholars in mainland China and Hong Kong add their voices to international scholarship
Photography and China
Title | Photography and China PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Roberts |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2013-06-01 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1780232470 |
With its lush and diverse landscapes, ancient ruins, and stunning architecture, China is a photographer’s dream. Exploring this visually rich and evocative country, Photography and China highlights Chinese photographers and subjects from the inception of photography to the present day. Drawing on works in museums, and archival and private collections across China, the United States, Europe, and Australia, Claire Roberts locates images from commercial, art, and documentary photography within the broader context of Chinese history. She focuses on the images as well as the studios and individuals who created them, describing the long tradition of Chinese artistic culture into which photography was first absorbed and subsequently expanded. As she recounts the stories of practitioners—from China and overseas—who were agents in that process of change, she also examines the commercial, political, and artistic purposes for which they used photography. Featuring one hundred striking, little-known images, Photography and China will make a significant contribution to photography, Chinese art, and twentieth-century history.