British Modernism and Chinoiserie

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This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for amythic China was a constituent element of British modernism.

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Full title :British Modernism and Chinoiserie / Anne Witchard.

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This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for amythic China was a constituent element of British modernism.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

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Description:1 ressource en ligne

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ISBN:0748690964, 0748690972, 9780748690961, 9780748690978
oclc:on1335028268
LC Classification:NX650.E85
Dewey Decimal:700.9

Acknowledgements; List of Plates; List of Figures; Introduction: 'the lucid atmosphere of fine Cathay'; 1: China and the Formation of the Modernist Aesthetic Ideal; 2: Shared Affinities: Katherine Mansfield, Ling Shuhua and Virginia Woolf; 3: Roger Fry, Chinese Art and The Burlington Magazine; 4: Chinese Artistic Influences on the Vorticists in London; 5: The Idea of the Chinese Garden and British Aesthetic Modernism; 6: 'Beautiful, baleful absurdity': Chinoiserie and Modernist Ballet; 7: Fashion, Chinoiserie andModernism.

8: The Oriental and the Music Hall: Sound and Space in Thomas Burke's Limehouse Chinatown9: Staging China, Excising the Chinese: Lady Precious Stream and the Darker Side of Chinoiserie; 10. Chinoiserie: An UnrequitedArchitectural Affair; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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Art, British -- Chinese influences Chinoiserie (Art) Chinoiserie (Art) -- Great Britain Criticism, interpretation, etc English Literature English literature -- History and criti… Great Britain Livres numériques Modernism (Aesthetics) Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Great Britain