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Pictures and visuality in early modern China / Craig Clunas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clunas, Craig.
- Series:
- Picturing history.
- Picturing history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912.
- Art, Chinese.
- Visual communication--China--Psychological aspects.
- Visual communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion Books, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China is not simply a survey of sixteenth-century images, but rather, a thorough and thoughtful examination of visual culture in China's Ming Dynasty, one that considers images wherever they appeared-not only paintings, but also illustrated books, maps, ceramic bowls, lacquered boxes, painted fans, and even clothing and tomb pictures. Clunas's theory of visuality incorporates not only the image and the object upon which it is placed but also the culture which produced and purchased it. Economic changes in sixteenth-century China-the rapid expansion of tra
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Positions of the Pictorial; 3 Representing the Triad; 4 Practices of Vision; 5 The Work of Art in the Age of Woodblock Reproduction; 6 Fears of the Image; 7 Conclusion; References; Bibliography; Picture Acknowledgements; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612255502
- 9781282255500
- 1282255509
- 9781861894991
- 1861894996
- OCLC:
- 463477430
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