Sensuous Surfaces The Decorative Object in Early Modern China

Name: Sensuous Surfaces The Decorative Object in Early Modern China
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ISBN: 9780824833619

ISBN-10: 0824833619

ISBN-13: 9780824833619

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jonathan Hay

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Sensuous Surfaces is a richly illustrated and in-depth introduction to the decorative arts in Ming- and Qing-dynasty China. Jonathan Hay explores materials and techniques, as well as issues of patronage and taste, which together formed a loose system of informal rules that affected every level of decoration in early modern China, from an individual object to the arrangement of an entire residential interior. By engaging the actual and metaphoric potential of surface, Hay contends, this system guided the production and use of the decorative arts during a period of explosive growth, which started in the late sixteenth century and continued until the mid-nineteenth century. This understanding…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 9/30/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 7.75" wide x 10.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.542
Language: English

Jonathan Hay is Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor of Fine Arts at New York University