Chinese Kinesthetic Forms

The collected essays in Chinese Kinesthetic Forms offer a dynamic intervention into conversations on dance, kinesthetics, and China's long history of performance. It ultimately argues for an understanding of movement not as an abstract concept, but instead as a fundamental organizing principle of human experience and expression.

About the author

Eugene Y. Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University and the founding director of Harvard FAS CAMLab, an initiative that explores the nexus of cognition, art, and media. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is also the art history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism. His extensive publications range from early Chinese art and archaeology to modern and contemporary Chinese art and cinema.

Summary

The collected essays in Chinese Kinesthetic Forms offer a dynamic intervention into conversations on dance, kinesthetics, and China’s long history of performance. It ultimately argues for an understanding of movement not as an abstract concept, but instead as a fundamental organizing principle of human experience and expression.

Product details

• Authors: Eugene Y. Wang
• Assisted by: Eugene Y. Wang (Editor), Wang Eugene Y. (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.10.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9780674297586
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29758-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; China, ART / History / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, ART / Asian / Chinese, History of Art, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, Literature: history and criticism, Oriental art