Subject: Art, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1911

Empire of great brightness : visual and material cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644
AuthorClunas, Craig
PlaceHonolulu
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberDS753.2.C58 2007
Description288 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 26 cm.
NoteEmpire of great brightness : visual and material cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644 / Craig Clunas.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-274) and index.

Contents: Time, space and agency in Ming China -- Sitting and roaming: cultures of direction and movement -- The word on the streets: cultures of text -- Pictures in the Chinese encyclopaedia: image, category, and knowledge -- Pleasure, play and excess -- Dark warriors: cultures of violence -- 'Walking with a staff': ageing and death -- Remnant subjects: afterlives of Ming visual and material culture.
***Graphic resource.

Multimedia
ISBN9780824831493
LCCN2006024694
Ming Qiu Ying Hangong chunxiao tu juan 明仇英漢宮春曉圖卷. [Hangong chunxiao tu 漢宮春曉圖]
AuthorQiu Ying 仇英, ca. 1494-1552
PlaceTaibei Shi 臺北市
PublisherGuoli gugong bowuyuan 國立故宮博物院
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition初版
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook (fanfold)
Series
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberND1049.Q258 A74 2014
DescriptionPortfolio (folded color scroll in page form) ; 30 cm
NoteMing Qiu Ying Hangong chunxiao tu juan 明仇英漢宮春曉圖卷 / [Qiu Ying 仇英 ; wenzi zhuanshu Liu Fangru 文字撰述劉芳如].
Title from colophon. Cover & case title: Qiu Ying Hangong chunxiao tu juan 仇英漢宮春曉圖卷.
民國103 [2014].
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ISBN9789575627164 ; 9575627164
LCCN2015393574
Pictures and visuality in early modern China
AuthorClunas, Craig
PlacePrinceton, NJ
PublisherPrinceton University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberN7343.5.C6 1997
Description221 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
NotePictures and visuality in early modern China / Craig Clunas.
"Originally published in Great Britain by Reaktion Books Ltd ... in 1997"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-214) and index.
Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Positions of the Pictorial -- 3. Representing the Triad -- 4. Practices of Vision -- 5. The Work of Art in the Age of Woodblock Reproduction -- 6. Fears of the Image -- 7. Conclusion.
See Publisher description.
Multimedia
ISBN0691057613 ; 9780691057613
LCCN97022449