Qing Encounters : Artistic Exchanges Between China and the West

Chu, Petra Ten-Doesschate (EDT); Ding, Ning (EDT); Chu, Lidy Jane (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1606064576 / ISBN 13: 9781606064573

Published by Getty Research Institute, 2015

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Synopsis:

Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volume reveal the extent to which images, artifacts, and natural specimens were traded and copied, and how these materials inflected both cultures' visions of novelty and pleasure, battle and power, and ways of seeing and representing. Artists and craftspeople on both continents borrowed and adapted forms, techniques, and modes of representation, producing deliberate, meaningful, and complex hybrid creations. By considering this reciprocity from both Eastern and Western perspectives, Qing Encounters offers a new and nuanced understanding of this critical period.

About the Author: Petra ten-Doesschate Chu is a professor of art history and museum studies and director of graduate studies in Museum Professions at Seton Hall University. Ning Ding is a professor of art history and theory and vice-dean at the School of Arts, Peking University.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Qing Encounters : Artistic Exchanges Between...
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New