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  • Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia

    Shells, Bodies, and Materiality

    de Anna K Grasskamp ...
    Series series Connected Histories in the Early Modern World
    During the early modern period, objects of maritime material culture were removed from their places of origin and traded, collected and displayed worldwide. Focusing on shells and pearls exchanged within local and global networks, this monograph compares and connects Asian, in particular Chinese, and European practices of oceanic exploitation in the framework of a transcultural history of art with ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Conchophilia

    Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe

    de Marisa Anne Bass, Anne Goldgar, Hanneke Grootenboer, Claudia Swan, Stephanie S. Dickey, Anna Grasskamp, Róisín Watson ...
    A captivating historical look at the cultural and artistic significance of shells in early modern EuropeAmong nature’s most artful creations, shells have long inspired the curiosity and passion of artisans, artists, collectors, and thinkers. Conchophilia delves into the intimate relationship between shells and people, offering an unprecedented account of the early modern era, when the influx of ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Transformative Jars

    Asian Ceramic Vessels as Transcultural Enclosures

    Edición de Anna Grasskamp, Dr Anne Gerritsen ...
    Series series Material Culture of Art and Design
    The term 'jar' refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to enclose something. Few objects are as universal and multi-functional as a jar – regardless of whether they contain food or drink, matter or a void, life-giving medicine or the ashes of the deceased. As ubiquitous as they may seem, such containers, storage vessels and urns are, as this book demonstrates, highly significant cultural ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • EurAsian Matters

    China, Europe, and the Transcultural Object, 1600-1800

    Edición de Anna Grasskamp, Monica Juneja ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings. Its approach connects material culture with art history, curation, technologies and practices of making. A central dimension of the case studies collected here is the mobility of objects between Europe and China and the transformations that unfold as a result of their ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD

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    Deconstruction in Chinese

    de Byung-Chul Han ...
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    Series Libro 8 - Untimely Meditations
    Tracing the thread of “decreation” in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original.Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means “fake,” originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or ... Leer más

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  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Edición de Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Leer más

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  • Chinese Script

    History, Characters, Calligraphy

    de Thomas O. Höllmann ...
    Traducido por Maximiliane Donicht ...
    In this brisk and accessible history, sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion, art, and other aspects of culture. Spanning the earliest epigraphs and oracle bones to writing and texting on computers and mobile phones today, Chinese Script is a wide-ranging and versatile introduction to the complexity and beauty ... Leer más

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  • Time in Maps

    From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era

    Edición de Kären Wigen, Caroline Winterer ...
    "As wide-ranging, imaginative, and revealing as the maps they discuss, these essays . . . track how maps—interpreted broadly—convey time as well as space." —Richard White, Stanford UniversityMaps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today's digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense ... Leer más

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  • Becoming Yellow

    A Short History of Racial Thinking

    de Michael Keevak ...
    The story of how East Asians became "yellow" in the Western imagination—and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinkingIn their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to ... Leer más

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  • Chora 5

    Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

    de Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Stephen Parcell ...
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    Provocative views on why architecture matters offer vital information for developing a richer architecture. ... Leer más

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  • Landscapes of Memory and Experience

    Edición de Jan Birksted ...
    It has been argued that the history of landscape and of gardens has been marginalized from the mainstream of art history and visual studies because of a lack of engagement with the theories, methods and concepts of these disciplines. This book explores possible ways out of this impasse in such a way that landscape studies would become pivotal through its theoretical advances, since landscape ... Leer más

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  • Ornament

    The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity

    de Antoine Picon ...
    Series series Architectural Design Primer
    Once condemned by Modernism and compared to a ‘crime’ by Adolf Loos, ornament has made a spectacular return in contemporary architecture. This is typified by the works of well-known architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Sauerbruch Hutton, Farshid Moussavi Architecture and OMA. There is no doubt that these new ornamental tendencies are inseparable from innovations in computer technology. The ... Leer más

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