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British modernism and chinoiserie / edited by Anne Witchard.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, British--Foreign influences.
- Arts, British.
- Modernism (Art)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Art).
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- China--In popular culture.
- China.
- China--Foreign public opinion, British.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 235 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "the lucid atmosphere of fine Cathay" / Anne Witchard
- China and the formation of the modernist aesthetic ideal / David Porter
- Shared affinities : Katherine Mansfield, Ling Shuhua and Virginia Woolf / Patricia Laurence
- Roger Fry, Chinese art and The Burlington magazine / Ralph Parfect
- Chinese artistic influences on the vorticists in London / Michelle Ying-Ling Huang
- The idea of the Chinese garden and British aesthetic modernism / Elizabeth Chang
- "Beautiful, baleful absurdity" : chinoiserie and modernist ballet / Anne Witchard
- Fashion, chinoiserie and modernism / Sarah Cheang
- The Oriental and the music hall : sound and space in Thomas Burke's Limehouse Chinatown / Paul Kendall
- Staging China, excising the Chinese : Lady Precious Stream and the darker side of chinoiserie / Diana Yeh
- Chinoiserie : an unrequited architectural affair / Edward Denison.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 3, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-2218-7
- 0-7486-9096-4
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