Tangible Whispers, Neglected Encounters : Histories of East-West Artistic Dialogues, 1350-1904 Paperback / softback
by Marco Musillo
Part of the Art series
Paperback / softback
Description
The relationship between East and West remains a topic of burning timeliness, particularly in its political dimension.
Yet, we can gain a complete understanding of the current tensions only if we consider them within a broader historical framework, spanning from art to diplomacy, from religion to ethnography.
The present volume tackles precisely this complex task, offering its reader a rich mosaic of case studies and scholarly research, relating to the mutual approaches between the Euro-American ‘West’, and the Sino-Japanese ‘East’.
In the first part of the book, art historian Marco Musillo uses the depictions of Tartars in fourteenth-century Italian frescoes as the starting point of a trajectory leading to eighteenth-century European literature on China.
In the second part, the reader is introduced to two cases of diplomatic encounter, one in sixteenth-century Italy between Japanese subjects and local courts, and the other one between Qing China and twentieth-century United States, in the space of the universal exhibition in St.
Louis. Finally, the last section proposes three interconnected art historical explorations: the screen design of Chinese origin in colonial Mexico, Medieval Christian tombstones in China, and early-modern Filipino sacred sculpture.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:268 pages, 36
- Publisher:Mimesis International
- Publication Date:31/12/2018
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- ISBN:9788869771552
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:268 pages, 36
- Publisher:Mimesis International
- Publication Date:31/12/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9788869771552