A Story Of Ruins PDF
It is an amazing Art book written by Wu Hung and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 15 February 2013 with total pages 296. Read book in PDF, EPUB and Kindle directly from your devices anywhere anytime. Click Download button to get A Story of Ruins book now. This site is like a library, Use search box to get ebook that you want.
- Author : Wu Hung
- Release Date : 15 February 2013
- Publisher : Reaktion Books
- Genre : Art
- Pages : 296
- ISBN 13 : 9781861899767
- Total Download : 856
- File Size : 41,8 Mb
A Story of Ruins PDF Summary
This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions between China and the West since the eighteenth century. Wu Hung leads us through an array of traditional and contemporary visual materials, including painting, architecture, photography, prints, and cinema. A Story of Ruins shows how ruins are integral to traditional Chinese culture in both architecture and pictorial forms. It traces the changes in their representation over time, from indigenous methods of recording damage and decay in ancient China, to realistic images of architectural ruins in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the strong interest in urban ruins in contemporary China, as shown in the many artworks that depict demolished houses and decaying industrial sites. The result is an original interpretation of the development of Chinese art, as well as a unique contribution to global art history.