Chinese Arts and Crafts
Chinese Arts and Crafts

Author: Jian Hang

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-03-09

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780521186551

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Chinese arts and crafts enjoy a unique reputation in the history of material culture and civilisation. For several thousand years, crafts have echoed the rhythm of daily life in China. From rural society to the imperial court, these crafts have served a practical purpose, constantly evolving with changes in lifestyle. In this illustrated introduction Hang Jian and Guo Qiuhui discuss the colorful history and development of distinctive Chinese crafts, including ceramics, furniture, clothing and decorative arts.

Chinese Arts & Crafts
Chinese Arts & Crafts

Author: 杭间

Publisher: 中信出版社

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9787508509631

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Also part of the Cultural China Series, this volume introduces the history and development of the traditional arts and crafts, and how these apply to many fields such as utensil, apparel, furnishings, adornment, entertainment, and commerce. Vivid color illustrations and photographs throughout.

Chinese Art
Chinese Art

Author: Patricia Bjaaland Welch

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2013-02-19

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1462906893

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With over 630 striking color photos and illustrations, this Chinese art guide focuses on the rich tapestry of symbolism which makes up the basis of traditional Chinese art. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery includes detailed commentary and historical background information for the images that continuously reappear in the arts of China, including specific plants and animals, religious beings, mortals and inanimate objects. The book thoroughly illuminates the origins, common usages and diverse applications of popular Chinese symbols in a tone that is both engaging and authoritative. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery is an essential reference for collectors, museum-goers, guides, students and anyone else with a serious interest in the culture and history of China.

Chinese Art & Culture
Chinese Art & Culture

Author: Clare Hibbert

Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781410911070

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Discover the wonders of Chinese art in this title that uncovers the unique culture and people that have created these beautiful art forms.

Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art
Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art

Author: Meiqin Wang

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1317481704

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This book explores the relationship between the ongoing urbanization in China and the production of contemporary Chinese art since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Wang provides a detailed analysis of artworks and methodologies of art-making from eight contemporary artists who employ a wide range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, and performance. She also sheds light on the relationship between these artists and their sociocultural origins, investigating their provocative responses to various processes and problems brought about by Chinese urbanization. With this urbanization comes a fundamental shift of the philosophical and aesthetic foundations in the practice of Chinese art: from a strong affiliation with nature and countryside to one that is complexly associated with the city and the urban world.

A History of Contemporary Chinese Art
A History of Contemporary Chinese Art

Author: Yan Zhou

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 9811511411

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Chinese art has experienced its most profound metamorphosis since the early 1950s, transforming from humble realism to socialist realism, from revolutionary art to critical realism, then avant-garde movement, and globalized Chinese art. With a hybrid mix of Chinese philosophy, imported but revised Marxist ideology, and western humanities, Chinese artists have created an alternative approach – after a great ideological and aesthetic transition in the 1980s – toward its own contemporaneity though interacting and intertwining with the art of rest of the world. This book will investigate, from the perspective of an activist, critic, and historian who grew up prior to and participated in the great transition, and then researched and taught the subject, the evolution of Chinese art in modern and contemporary times. The volume will be a comprehensive and insightful history of the one of the most sophisticated and unparalleled artistic and cultural phenomena in the modern world.