Qing encounters
Subtitle: artistic exchanges between China and the West
By: edited by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding, with Lidy Jane Chu
Series: Issues & debates; Issues & debates
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781606064573
Subjects: European Art; Chinese Art; Western influences; Chinese influences; East and West in art
Description: "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. These essays reveal how trading and copying images, artifacts, and natural specimens inflected both cultures' visions of novelty and pleasure, battle and power, and ways of seeing and representing. Artists and craftspeople 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"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.