Author: Ai Xuan
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 889182433X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The first illustrated monograph in English devoted to the work of Ai Xuan, the most influential contemporary oil painter and leading representative of Chinese realism. Ai Xuan is considered one of the most outstanding Chinese contemporary realist painters. In 2004, working together with other leading Chinese painters using a realist style, he formed an artistic group called Beijing Realism, later renamed Chinese Realism. This group has since become the key force shaping the promotion of realism in Chinese contemporary painting, including an annual national exhibition of realist paintings. Overcoming the tragedies of his poet father, Ai Qing, political movements, and his turmoil-infused childhood, Xuan transforms all these harsh life experiences into his artistic creations. These works lead readers into the inner world of someone who is able to capture his sympathy for helplessness in life through paintings with astonishing precision. This thoughtfully curated book reviews his art career through a selection of his most representative masterpieces from each stage of his development, alongside comprehensive analysis by the art critic and professor Hsiung Yi Ching.
Author: Yuwu Song
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476602980
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 453
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This biographical dictionary is an indispensable research tool for information about the prominent persons of the past seven decades in China. The book documents nearly 600 Chinese individuals who contributed, for better or worse, to the development of Chinese life and culture since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Though the book is weighted toward political figures, it includes persons in business, the military, academia, medicine, social movements, the arts, entertainment and athletics. In addition to an objective description of the person's life, an analysis is provided that identifies the individual's contributions and importance.
Author: Xian ErMaMa
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1636317413
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 627
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The sudden marriage of the prince's son, Xiao Yu, broke the hearts of all the noble ladies in the capital. What was more difficult to accept was whether he would marry Su Wan Yin! Who didn't know that the Third Miss of the Su Clan had nothing? Wasn't it just giving birth to a good face!? After the client heard this, he waved his fan and laughed, "Women, of course a pretty face is enough." A few years later, he found out that the Crown Princess was actually the one who made the most of everything! The ladies were furious once again. "Didn't they say that as long as one looks good, it would be fine?" Su Wan Yin covered her face and laughed lightly, "You guys still believe me when I speak of it casually?" - - - - - - - - - - - - Great deity's new book is open. Everyone can search for 'Poison Girl: You haven't drank the medicine yet!' Once she teleported, Su Jin not only had a three-year-old son, but a man who wanted to steal her son?! His opponent was handsome and elegant with a great deal of perseverance? Su Jin said, "Directly killing him with poison is good enough. We can eliminate any future troubles!" However, before she could do anything, a certain someone shamelessly stuck close to her with a face full of flattery ...
Author: Günter Berghaus
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311039099X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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The Handbook of International Futurism is the first reference work ever to presents in a comparative fashion all media and countries in which the movement, initiated by F.T. Marinetti in 1909, exercised a particularly noteworthy influence. The handbook offers a synthesis of the state of scholarship regarding the international radiation of Futurism and its influence in some fifteen artistic disciplines and thirty-eight countries. While acknowledging the great achievements of the movement in the visual and literary arts of Italy and Russia, it treats Futurism as an international, multidisciplinary phenomenon that left a lasting mark on the manifold artistic manifestations of the early twentieth-century avant-garde. Hundreds of artists, who in some phase in their career absorbed Futurist ideas and stylistic devices, are presented in the context of their national traditions, their international connections and the media in which they were predominantly active. The handbook acts as a kind of multi-disciplinary, geographical encyclopaedia of Futurism and gives scholars with varying levels of experience a detailed overview of all countries and disciplines in which the movement had a major impact.
Author: Toby Lincoln
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137554711
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world’s most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which the quality of life can be improved. They focus on how cities have been made secure during times of instability, how their inhabitants have consumed everything from the simplest of foods to the most expensive luxuries, and how they have been planned as ideal spaces. Drawing examples from across the country, this book offers comparisons between different cities, highlights continuities across time and space—and in doing so may provide solutions to some of the problems that continue to affect Chinese cities today.
Author: Alex Burchmore
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520390016
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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"New Export China provides a materials-focused framework for contemporary Chinese art, taking works in porcelain by international artists Ai Weiwei, Liu Jianhua, Ah Xian, and Sin-ying Ho as case studies for the role of travel and translation in global artistic practice. Porcelain has long been a vehicle for transmitting cultural knowledge, yet little has been written about its relevance for an era when our interconnection is clearer than ever. Taking a thematic approach, this book positions porcelain art within current debates around archival intervention, artistic authenticity, racial and gender identity, global capital and migrant labor, cultural stereotypes, and ownership of heritage"--
Author: Mi Zhou
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004126053
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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An annotated translation of Zhou Mi's (1232-1298) "Record of Clouds and Mist Passing Before One's Eyes (Yunyan guoyan lu)," A valuable contribution to help broaden our understanding of the early care and transmission of artworks, the social dimensions of art collecting, and the development of a multi-ethnic society in Yuan China.
Author: Yue Tong
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647675707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 681
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She did not have an illustrious family background, nor did she have an impeccable appearance. However, she climbed step by step up to the position of concubine. She had given birth to six children for Emperor Kang Xi, and had once pampered the harem! She had had the simplest of loves, had experienced the most complicated plans of a palace, had wanted to see through the walls of the palace cold and lonely, and had also shocked the imperial harem. She was the only one!
Author: Xin Yue
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647968526
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1874
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The original pre-marital agreement only marriage not sex but the wedding night he will eat her bones are not left this also calculate marry less than a month be caught by her husband in the office dozen wild food she does not know to admire her husband s endurance a night n times even have energy to play wild food crown brother in front of him are floating clouds such a husband can you want
Author: Michael Sullivan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520244494
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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