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Author Hay, Jonathan, 1956-

Title Sensuous surfaces : the decorative object in early modern China / Jonathan Hay
Published Honolulu, HI ; London : University of Hawaiʻi Press : Reaktion Books, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (440 pages) : color illustrations
Series BMJ Books
Contents The decorative object -- The surfacescape's resources -- From surfacescapes to objectscapes
Summary ?Sensuous Surfaces is a systematic introduction to the decorative arts in Ming and Qing dynasty China. Jonathan Hay's analysis takes in both material and technique, and also issues of patronage and taste, which together formed a loose system of informal rules that affected every level of decoration in early modern China, from an individual object to the arrangement of an entire residential interior. By engaging the actual and metaphoric potential of surface, this system guided the production and use of the decorative arts during a period of explosive growth, which started in the late sixt
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-422) and index
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Subject Decorative arts -- China -- History -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912.
Decorative arts -- Ming-Qing dynasties
China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010004931
ISBN 9781861898463
1861898460
9780824833619
0824833619
9781861894083
1861894082