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Picturing Chinatown : art and orientalism in San Francisco / Anthony W. Lee.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Anthony W., 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting, American--California--San Francisco.
- Painting, American.
- Photography--California--San Francisco.
- Photography.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--In art.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.).
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (367 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and many never reproduced before, to illustrate how this famous district has acted on the photographic and painterly imagination.
- Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: The Place of Chinatown; Two: Picturesque Chinatown; Three: Photography on the Streets; Four: Photography in the Books; Five: Revolutionary Artists; Six: The Forbidden City; Postscript; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-336) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-92586-6
- 1-59734-807-4
- OCLC:
- 614605954
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