Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China

Informationen zum Autor Craig Clunas is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China (Reaktion, 2013). Klappentext This is the first survey of the vast array of images produced in sixteenth-century China! from conventional artworks! to wall decorations! to books! maps! images on ceramics! and even on the dress of the prosperous. Craig Clunas provides a stimulating and innovative point of entry to Chinese art history. Zusammenfassung This is the first survey of the vast array of images produced in sixteenth-century China! from conventional artworks! to wall decorations! to books! maps! images on ceramics! and even on the dress of the prosperous. Craig Clunas provides a stimulating and innovative point of entry to Chinese art history.

About the author

Craig Clunas is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China (Reaktion, 2013).

Product details

• Authors: Craig Clunas, Clunas Craig
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2012
• EAN: 9781861896681
• ISBN: 978-1-86189-668-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Picturing History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; China, HISTORY / Asia / General, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, East Asia, Far East, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Oriental art