书籍介绍
This title explores the curiosity and collaboration that has existed between East and West for centuries. The striking illustrated books, maps, and prints featured in China on Paper are some of the most notable among the printed works produced at the dawn of the era of global trade to present China to Europe and bring Western science, religion, and art to China. From a Chinese translation of the rosary to French editions of Confucian classics, from a monumental map of the world to magnificent engravings of the European pavilions built by Jesuits at the behest of the Qianlong emperor - these works on paper reveal a compelling and largely hidden history of mutual curiosity and fruitful collaboration at a time when few people travelled far from home.
精彩摘录
- "In addition, Chambers transmitted one of the aesthetic tenets central to Chinese garden theory — the application of principles of Chinese landscape painting to the design (“they consider a plantation as painters do a picture”) — which played into the contemporary debates about the cult of the pictur"
- "In comparing the Chinese-style garden in Europe with the European Pavilions at the Garden of Perfect Clarity, certain asymmetries are apparent. Despite its hybridity, the Qianlong emperor’s complex represented a foreign world and achieved a consistent style. Moreover, because it was entirely contain"
作者简介
Marcia Reed is head of Collection Development at the Getty Research Institute.
Paola Demattè is associate professor of Chinese art and archaeology at the Rhode Island School of Design.
用户评论
Marcia Reed 对马可波罗之后的基歇尔、皮卡尔画作进行了分析。Richard E. Strassberg（石听泉）的War and Peace：Four Intercultural Landscapes【呈现了耕织、乾隆帝克敌、圆明园、中式塔】与李潇雨的《再现的腔调——以近代西方人视野中的中国塔、寺为中心》写作思路倒是挺一致的。又见Imagining Qianlong这本书。
中西交汇、书籍与出版史、西方眼中的中国风景与中国人物，接触过中国的西方人如何向他们的同胞介绍神秘的远东世界。为了论文草草翻阅一部分，材料比分析更有意思。多一句嘴，保守大部分不源于价值观，而是源于无知，绝大多数人都只能接受“和我相似”的部分，排斥非我族类的部分，想当中西桥梁的人最终必沦为同胞眼中的国贼，中西皆是
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