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Languages : en
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Prints of the Ten Bamboo Studio
Author: The Ten Bamboo Studio
Author: Publisher: Crescent
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Category : Arts, Rococo
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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The Prints of the Ten Bamboo Studio
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Category : Color prints, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Chinese Colour Prints from the Ten Bamboo Studio
Author: Jan TschicholdPublisher: Lund Humphries Publishers
ISBN: 9780853312765
Category : Color prints, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 53
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Garden, Art and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints
Author: T. June LiPublisher:
ISBN: 9780873282673
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Languages : en
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Chinese Colour Prints from the Ten Bamboo Studio
Author: Jan TschicholdPublisher:
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Category : Prints, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Chinese Colour Prints from the Ten Bamboo Studio
Author: Jan TschicholdPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Folk Art and Modern Culture in Republican China
Author: Felicity LufkinPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498526292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Folk art is now widely recognized as an integral part of the modern Chinese cultural heritage, but in the early twentieth century, awareness of folk art as a distinct category in the visual arts was new. Internationally, intellectuals in different countries used folk arts to affirm national identity and cultural continuity in the midst of the changes of the modern era. In China, artists, critics and educators likewise saw folk art as a potentially valuable resource: perhaps it could be a fresh source of cultural inspiration and energy, representing the authentic voice of the people in contrast to what could be seen as the limited and elitist classical tradition. At the same time, many Chinese intellectuals also saw folk art as a problem: they believed that folk art, as it was, promoted superstitious and backward ideas that were incompatible with modernization and progress. In either case, folk art was too important to be left in the hands of the folk: educated artists and researchers felt a responsibility intervene, to reform folk art and create new popular art forms that would better serve the needs of the modern nation. In the early 1930s, folk art began to figure in the debates on social role of art and artists that were waged in the pages of the Chinese press, the first major exhibition of folk art was held in Hangzhou, and the new print movement claimed the print as a popular artistic medium while, for the most part, declaring its distance from contemporary folk printmaking practices. During the war against Japan, from 1937 to 1945, educated artists deployed imagery and styles drawn from folk art in morale-boosting propaganda images, but worried that this work fell short of true artistic accomplishment and pandering to outmoded tastes. The questions raised in interaction with folk art during this pivotal period, questions about heritage, about the social position of art, and the exercise of cultural authority continue to resonate into the present day.
Art in China
Author: Craig ClunasPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192842077
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
China can boast a history of art lasting 5,000 years and embracing a huge diversity of images and objects - jade tablets, painted silk handscrolls and fans, ink and lacquer painting, porcelain-ware, sculptures, and calligraphy. They range in scale from the vast 'terracotta army' with its 7,000or so life-size figures, to the exquisitely delicate writing of fourth-century masters such as Wang Xizhin and his teacher, 'Lady Wei'. But this rich tradition has not, until now, been fully appreciated in the West where scholars have focused their attention on sculpture, downplaying art more highlyprized by the Chinese themselves such as calligraphy. Art in China marks a breakthrough in the study of the subject. Drawing on recent innovative scholarship and on newly-accessible studies in China itself Craig Clunas surveys the full spectrum of the visual arts in China. He ranges from the Neolithic period to the art scene of the 1980s and 1990s,examining art in a variety of contexts as it has been designed for tombs, commissioned by rulers, displayed in temples, created for the men and women of the educated ilite, and bought and sold in the marketplace. Many of the objects illustrated in this book have previously been known only to a fewspecialists, and will be totally new to a general audience.
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 1, Paper and Printing
Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521086905
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Part one of the fifth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is written by one of the project's collaborators. Professor Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin, working in regular consultation with Dr Needham, has written the most comprehensive account of every aspect of paper and printing in China to be published in the West. From a close study of the vast mass of source material, Professor Tsien brings order and illumination to an area of technology which has been of profound importance in the spread of civilisation. The main body of the book is a detailed study of the invention, technology and aesthetic development of printing in China. From the growth and ultimate refinements of early woodcut printing to the spread of printing from movable type and the development of book-binding, Professor Tsien carries the story forward to the beginning of the nineteenth century when 'more printed pages existed in Chinese than in all other languages put together'.
