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Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China (Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics) (v. 1) [Hardcover]

Jonathan Hay (Author)


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February 19, 2001 0521393426 978-0521393423 1
This book examines the work of one of the most famous Chinese artists of all time. In this study, the first full-length work on Shitao in a Western language, Jonathan Hay provides a theoretically sophisticated analysis of this artist by undertaking a social history of his achievement. By focusing on different social, political, biographical, economic, religious and aesthetic issues, the author reveals the full complexity of Shitao's practice. Throughout this study, Hay also argues for the modernity of Shitao's painting, showing how his work is embedded in the socioeconomic context of the seventeenth century and how it involves a redefinition of subjectivity in terms of self-consciousness, doubt, and an aspiration to autonomy.


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Examines the work of one of the most famous Chinese artists of all time. Jonathan Hay reveals the modernity of Shitao's painting, showing how it is embedded in the socioeconomic context of the seventeenth century and how it thus involves a redefinition of subjectivity.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 436 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (February 19, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0521393426
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521393423
  • Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.7 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,579,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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