A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture - Hardcover
by Hung Wu
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691155029ISBN-10:069115502XUPC:9780691155029Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, History, Subjects & ThemesSize:10.00 x 7.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:2.5022Product ID:SC9RRZRV97
A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture
This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. Leading scholar of Chinese art Wu Hung shows how the story of ruins in China is different from but connected to "ruin culture" in the West. He investigates indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691155029ISBN-10:069115502XUPC:9780691155029Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, History, Subjects & ThemesSize:10.00 x 7.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:2.5022Product ID:SC9RRZRV97
Wu Hung is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese Art History and director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, both at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs and Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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