Author: T. June LiPublisher:
ISBN: 9780873282673
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Garden, Art and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints
Author: T. June LiPublisher:
ISBN: 9780873282673
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Federal Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Ten Bamboo Studio
Author: Ordering the Myriad Things
Author: Nicholas MenziesPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295749474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written by keen observers of nature. Until the late nineteenth century, however, standard practice did not include deploying a set of diagnostic tools using a common terminology and methodology to identify and describe new and unknown species or properties. Ordering the Myriad Things relates how traditional knowledge of plants in China gave way to scientific botany between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, when plants came to be understood in a hierarchy of taxonomic relationships to other plants and within a broader ecological context. This shift not only expanded the universe of plants beyond the familiar to encompass unknown species and geographies but fueled a new knowledge of China itself. Nicholas K. Menzies highlights the importance of botanical illustration as a tool for recording nature—contrasting how images of plants were used in the past to the conventions of scientific drawing and investigating the transition of “traditional” systems of organization, classification, observation, and description to “modern” ones.
Philadelphians and the China Trade, 1784-1844
Author: Jean Gordon LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
To Life!
Author: Linda WeintraubPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520273613
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.
The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities in Chinese History
Author: Jeremy ClarkePublisher:
ISBN: 9789888268443
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
How are Chinese Catholic identities expressed through images? In this cross-disciplinary study which engages with history, theology and art, Fr. Jeremy Clarke explores paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and the communities that produced them over several centuries. He argues for the emergence of distinctly Chinese Catholic identities as artistic representations of the Virgin Mary sometime absorbed representations of such Chinese figures as Guanyin while at other times were diluted by Western influences following the influx of European missionaries. The book offers a new view of Cathol.
Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field
Author: Jörg QuenzerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110384825
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Script and writing were among the most important inventions in human history, and until the invention of printing, the handwritten book was the primary medium of literary and cultural transmission. Although the study of manuscripts is already quite advanced for many regions of the world, no unified discipline of ‘manuscript studies’ has yet evolved which is capable of treating handwritten books from East Asia, India and the Islamic world equally alongside the European manuscript tradition. This book, which aims to begin the interdisciplinary dialogue needed to arrive at a truly systematic and comparative approach to manuscript cultures worldwide, brings together papers by leading researchers concerned with material, philological and cultural aspects of different manuscript traditions.
The Dianshizhai Pictorial
Author: Xiaoqing YePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0892641622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Brings to life the visual culture of the "nightless city," late nineteenth-century Shanghai, through analyses of more than one hundred drawn depictions
Rhapsodic Objects
Author: Yaelle BiroPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110757664
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Zirkulation und Nachahmung haben einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf die Gestaltung der materiellen Welt. Die Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen, wie technisches Wissen, immaterielle Wünsche und politische Agenden die Produktion und Rezeption der visuellen und materiellen Kultur im Wandel der Zeit und Orte prägten. Sie gehen den Wanderungen von Kulturgütern unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Entstehungskontexte nach. Mit dem Begriff des „rhapsodischen Objektes" werden dabei die vielschichtigen, nicht immer in einem Zusammenhang stehenden Erzählungen der Objekte angesprochen.