Chinese art and its encounter with the world /
The book offers a bridge into the critical understanding of modern Chinese art through its encounter with the world beyond China's borders. David Clarke demonstrates Chinese art's interconnections with Western cultures while exploring its inherited cultural traditions and internal historic...
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Trajectories: Chinese artists and the West; Chapter 1: Chitqua: A Chinese artist in eighteenth-century London; Chapter 2: Cross-cultural dialogue and artistic innovation: Teng Baiye and Mark Tobey; Part II: Imported genres; Chapter 3: Iconicity and indexicality: The body in Chinese art; Chapter 4: Abstraction and modern Chinese art; Part III: Returning home: Cites between China and the world; Chapter 5: Illuminating facades: Looking at postcolonial Macau; Chapter 6: The haunted city: Hong Kong and its urban others in the postcolonial era.
