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Genre/Form: | MFA objects (DJ) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Clunas, Craig. Pictures and visuality in early modern China. London : Reaktion Books, 1997 (OCoLC)1227380831 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Craig Clunas |
ISBN: | 1861890087 9781861890085 1861896689 9781861896681 |
OCLC Number: | 38502050 |
Description: | 221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Positions of the pictorial -- Representing the Triad -- Practices of vision -- The work of art in the age of woodblock reproduction -- Fears of the image -- Conclusion. |
Series Title: | Picturing history. |
Responsibility: | Craig Clunas. |
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'He argues his interpretations of Chinese art with a great sense of adventure, and it reads tremendously well. Clunas is a master of argument. He presents his texts around carefully considered selections of material culture, which are not simply mustered to illustrate one art-historical point after another, but skilfully used for their value in making several claims throughout a larger discourse.' - Times Higher Educational Supplement 'Reveals the tantalizing array of images to be considered in pursuit of a full understanding of Chinese pictorial culture. It is hoped that this study will stimulate similar studies for other periods, creating a wider and fuller understanding of the ways in which images were deployed and understood in China. We still have a long way to go to escape the limitations of the traditional accounts that are the focus of Professor Clunas's criticism.' - Apollo Read more...

