Visualising China, 1845-1965 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visualising China, 1845-1965 write by Christian Henriot. This book was released on 2012-11-09. Visualising China, 1845-1965 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Visualizing China, the authors launch a broad inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the story of visuality in modern China. The essays cluster around several nodal points including photographs, advertising, posters and movies, from the 1840s to the 1960s.
Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments
Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments write by Arundhati Virmani. This book was released on 2021-09-30. Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To what extent do urban dwellers relate to their lived and imagined environment through aesthetic perceptions, and aspirations? This book approaches experiences of urban aesthetics not as an established framework, defined by imposed norms or legislations, but as the result of a continuous reflexive and proactive gaze, a complex and deep engagement of the mind, body and sensibilities. It uses empirical studies ranging from China, India to Western Europe. Three axes are privileged. The first considers urban everyday aesthetic experiences in the long-term as a historical production, from medieval Italy to a future imagined by science fiction. The second examines the impact of aestheticizing everyday material realities in neighbourhoods, and the tensions and conflicts these engender around urban commons. Finally, the third axis considers these relationships as aesthetic inequalities, exacerbated in a new age of urban development. The book combines local and transnational scales with an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together historians, sociologists, cultural geographers, anthropologists, architects and contemporary art curators. They illustrate the importance of combining different social science methods and functional perspectives to study such complex social and cultural realities as cities. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners of humanities and social sciences, cultural and urban studies, architecture and political geography.
Power and Perspective
Power and Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and Perspective write by Karina Corrigan. This book was released on 2022. Power and Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction / Stephanie H. Tung and Karina H. Corrigan -- China's nineteenth century : a snapshot / Mark Elliott -- The coolie, the corpse, and the crowd : Felice Beato and the ethics of war photography / Stephanie H. Tung -- The making and marketing of photography in nineteenth-century China / Stephanie H. Tung, Bing Wang, and Karina H. Corrigan -- Collecting China : PEM'S early patrons of Chinese photography / Karina H. Corrigan -- How do we know a faraway place? : China in early photography / Roberta Wue -- Photography and its worlds / Yi Gu.
Visualizing Dunhuang
Visualizing Dunhuang - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visualizing Dunhuang write by Jun Hu. This book was released on 2021-06. Visualizing Dunhuang available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Located at the crossroads of the northern and southern routes of the ancient Silk Road on the edge of the Taklamakan desert in western China, Dunhuang is one of the richest Buddhist sites in China with nearly 500 cave temples constructed between the fourth and the fourteenth century. The sculptures, murals, portable paintings, and manuscripts found in the caves represent every aspect of Buddhism, both doctrinally and artistically. From its earliest construction to the present, Dunhuang has been visualized in many ways by the architects, builders, and artists who made the caves to twentieth-century explorers and photographers, conservators, and contemporary artists. This book explores ways in which Dunhuang has been visualized from its creation to contemporary times. Essays by leading scholars from the U.S., Europe, and China cover a wide range of topics, from the architecture of cave temples to painting and sculptural programs, Buddhist ritual practices, expeditionary photography, conservation, and the contributions of Dunhuang to art history"--
Photography in China
Photography in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Photography in China write by Oliver Moore. This book was released on 2021-12-24. Photography in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emphasizing the medium’s reception among several Chinese constituencies, this book explores photography’s impact within new discourses on science, as well as its effects in social life, visual modernity and the media during China’s transition from imperial to republican government. General knowledge and academic teaching of early modern Chinese visual culture stops short of fitting photography into the larger context of visual practices and theories. This study redraws the boundaries by making photography the central concern within changing priorities of visual representation and its functions during a period of major cultural and political change. No other study draws on such intimate familiarity with the early glamour of photography as science, commerce and communication in the various local conditions of China’s cities and towns. Joining a body of critical writing that examines photography’s histories outside the familiar confines of the West, this book looks beyond the tourist and imperialist gazes of photographer-adventurers from the Western powers and Japan. It defines instead the Chinese priorities of photographic vision that are abundantly evident in surviving photographs as well as in records as various as technical manuals and personal inscriptions. Local practices and local knowledge are the keys to explain the highly successful indigenization of a medium as globalizing as photography with reference to Chinese society’s own terms and practices. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art and visual culture, the history of photography and Asian art.
