Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China

ISBN: 9781861890085

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³ö°æÄê: 2006-3-1

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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¡ªnot 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¡ªthe rapid expansion of trade routes and a growing class of consumers¡ªare 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.

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Craig Clunas is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Sussex. He has published extensively on the culture of the Ming period. His books include Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China; Art in China; and Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China.

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