Reinventing the Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

Reinventing the Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

Edited by Wu Hung

Chicago: Art Media Resources and Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago
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2010
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Using textual sources, archeological materials, and works of various artistic forms, the authors demonstrate through specific cases and examples from many historic periods a wide range of engagement with sites, artifacts, themes, and styles that resulted in continuously changing perspectives on the past and varying approaches to artistic production. 

 

Contributors: Qianshen Bai, Craig Clunas, n Patricia Ebrey, Tonia Eckfeld, Lothar von Falkenhaousen, Sarah El fraser, Jessica Rawson, Yun-Chjiahn C. Sena, Katherine. R Tsiang, Lillian Lan-Ying Tseng, asaraCheng-hua Wang, and Wu Hung.

 

Reinventing the Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in Chinese Art and Visual Culture