| Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China Contributor(s): Clunas, Craig (Author) |
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ISBN: 1861896689 ISBN-13: 9781861896681 Publisher: Reaktion Books OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Asian - General - History | Asia - General |
| Dewey: 709.51 |
| Series: Reaktion Books - Picturing History |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.70 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - Chinese - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 trade routes and a growing class of consumers--are thus intricately bound up with the evolution of the image itself. Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China will be a touchstone for students of Chinese history, art, and culture. |
Contributor Bio(s): Clunas, Craig: - Craig Clunas is professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford. He is the author of many books, including Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China and Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, also published by Reaktion Books. |