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Shitao : painting and modernity in early Qing China / Jonathan Hay.

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Author/Creator:
Hay, Jonathan, 1956-
Language:
English
Imprint:
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Format:
  • Book
  • xxiv, 412 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-387) and indexes.
Contents:
  • 1. Shitao, Yangzhou, and modernity-- 2. The conspicuous consumption of time-- 3. The common claim on dynastic narrative-- 4. Zhu Ruoji's destinies-- 5. The acknowledgment of origins-- 6. The Artis-Entrepreneur-- 7. Paintings as commodities-- 8. The painter's craft-- 9. Painting as praxis-- 10. The private horizon.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Publisher's Summary:
This book examines the work of one of the most famous Chinese artists of all time. In this study, the first full-length work on Shitao in a Western language, Jonathan Hay provides a theoretically sophisticated analysis of this artist by undertaking a social history of his achievement. By focusing on different social, political, biographical, economic, religious and aesthetic issues, the author reveals the full complexity of Shitao's practice. Throughout this study, Hay also argues for the modernity of Shitao's painting, showing how his work is embedded in the socioeconomic context of the seventeenth century and how it involves a redefinition of subjectivity in terms of self-consciousness, doubt, and an aspiration to autonomy.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Series:
RES monographs in anthropology and aesthetics.
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ISBN:
0521393426
9780521393423

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