Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting - Paperback

$73.71

Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting - Paperback

Name: Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting - Paperback
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SKU: 9781501388385
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by Chia-Ling Yang

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Book Overview

The pursuit of antiquity was important for scholarly artists in constructing their knowledge of history and cultural identity in late imperial China. By examining versatile trends within paintings in modern China, this book questions the extent to which historical relics have been used to represent the ethnic identity of modern Chinese art. In doing so, this book asks: did the antiquarian movements ultimately serve as a deliberate tool for re-writing Chinese art history in modern China?

In searching for the public meaning of inventive private collecting activity, Appropriating Antiquity in Modern Chinese Painting draws on various modes of artistic creation to address how the use of antiquities in early 20th-century Chinese art both produced and reinforced the imaginative links between ancient civilization and modern lives in the late Qing dynasty. Further exploring how these social and cultural transformations were related to the artistic exchanges happening at the time between China, Japan and the West, the book successfully analyses how modernity was translated and appropriated at the turn of the 20th century, throughout Asia and further afield.

ISBN	9781501388385
Author	Chia-Ling Yang
Publisher	Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Genre	Arts and History
Format	Paperback
Published	August 2024
Language	ENG- English
Pages	328
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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