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Entangled landscapes : early modern China and Europe / edited by Yue Zhuang & Andrea M. Riemenschnitter.
Fine Arts Library SB470.55.C6 E58 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape design--China--History.
- Landscape design.
- Landscape design--Europe--History.
- Art--China--History.
- Art.
- Art--Europe--History.
- History.
- China--Relations--Europe.
- China.
- Relations.
- Europe.
- Europe--Relations--China.
- International relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : NUS Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- The exchange of landscape practice between China and Europe from 1500-1800 is an important chapter in art history. While the material forms of the outcome of this exchange, like jardin anglo-chinois and Europeenerie, are well documented, this book moves further to examine the role of the exchange in identity formation in early modern China and Europe. Proposing the new paradigm of "entangled landscapes," drawing from the concept of "entangled histories," this book looks at landscape design, cartography, literature, philosophy and material culture of the period. Challenging simplistic, binary treatments of the movements of influences" exchanges entailed complex processes of appropriation, crossover and transformation, through which Chinese and European identities were formed. Exploring these complex processes via three themes-empire building, mediators' constraints and aesthetic negotiations-this work breaks new ground in landscape and East-West studies. Interdisciplinary and revisionist in its thrust, it will also benefit scholars of history, human geography and postcolonial studies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Western Orientals?: The Theme of the Tartar in the Elizabethan Discourse on Ireland / Mark Dorrian Dorrian, Mark 39
- 2 Fear and Pride: Sir William Chambers' Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, Burke's Sublime and China / Yue Zhuang Zhuang, Yue 56
- 3 Layered Landscape: Textual and Cartographical Representations of Hangzhou's West Lake, 16th-18th Centuries / Roland Altenburger Altenburger, Roland 115
- 4 Copperplates Controversy: Matteo Ripa's Thirty-six Views of Jehol and the Chinese Rites Controversy / Michele Fatica Fatica, Michele, Yue Zhuang Zhuang, Yue 144
- 5 The "True Wonder" in Emperor Qianlong's Garden Labyrinths / Hui Zou Zou, Hui 187
- 6 "Retreats or Attacks?": Scholars, Poets and the Politics of Landscape Gardening in China and the West / Stephen Bann Bann, Stephen 210
- 7 Culture and Nature: Human Landscapes in Chinese and European Imaginations / David E. Cooper Cooper, David E. 229
- 8 Postscript: Contemporary Chinese Landscape Aesthetics between Crisis and Creativity / Andrea M. Riemenschnitter Riemenschnitter, Andrea M. 242.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789814722582
- 9814722588
- OCLC:
- 979568400
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