Dimensions of Originality : Essays on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Th eory and Criticism /
Dimensions of Originality investigates the issue of conceptual originality in seventeenth-century art criticism, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. The term which was called upon to indicate conceptual originality more than any other was qi, literally, "different"; but...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2013.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Part I
- 1. some problems of expectation or speculations on why originality can't be a "traditional Chinese" value (when it is)
- Some problems of interpretation or discerning the flavors of a fine kettle of fish
- Part II. Ideas and words
- How ideas spread across China and among the classes
- The importance of a word : a discussion of critical terms
- Part III. What the theorists and critics had to say
- What the texts say : originality in pre-seventeenth-century art theory and criticism
- What the texts say : originality in seventeenth-century painting theory and criticism
- What the texts say : originality in seventeenth-century calligraphy theory and criticism
- Part IV. Images
- The other Dong Qichang
- What originality looks like : Wu Bin's On the way to Shanyin
- Part V. The legacy of a concept
- 10. The End of originality as the seventeenth century knew it
- Epilogue. A new canon : qi becomes the new zheng
- Appendix. Instances of the ise of qi, yi, and guai in sobriquet dictionaries
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.