British Modernism and Chinoiserie /Anne Witchard.
British Modernism and Chinoiserie /Anne Witchard.
- Edinburgh University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgements; List of Plates; List of Figures; Introduction: 'the lucid atmosphere of fine Cathay'; 1: China and the Formation of the Modernist Aesthetic Ideal; 2: Shared Affinities: Katherine Mansfield, Ling Shuhua and Virginia Woolf; 3: Roger Fry, Chinese Art and The Burlington Magazine; 4: Chinese Artistic Influences on the Vorticists in London; 5: The Idea of the Chinese Garden and British Aesthetic Modernism; 6: 'Beautiful, baleful absurdity': Chinoiserie and Modernist Ballet; 7: Fashion, Chinoiserie and Modernism. 8: The Oriental and the Music Hall: Sound and Space in Thomas Burke's Limehouse Chinatown9: Staging China, Excising the Chinese: Lady Precious Stream and the Darker Side of Chinoiserie; 10. Chinoiserie: An Unrequited Architectural Affair; Notes on Contributors; Index.
This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism.
9780748690978 9780748690961
GBB8K8057 bnb
017733870 Uk 019112574 Uk
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Chinoiserie (Art)--Great Britain.
Art, British--Chinese influences.
Modernism (Aesthetics)--Great Britain.
Electronic Books.
NX650 / .B758 2015
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgements; List of Plates; List of Figures; Introduction: 'the lucid atmosphere of fine Cathay'; 1: China and the Formation of the Modernist Aesthetic Ideal; 2: Shared Affinities: Katherine Mansfield, Ling Shuhua and Virginia Woolf; 3: Roger Fry, Chinese Art and The Burlington Magazine; 4: Chinese Artistic Influences on the Vorticists in London; 5: The Idea of the Chinese Garden and British Aesthetic Modernism; 6: 'Beautiful, baleful absurdity': Chinoiserie and Modernist Ballet; 7: Fashion, Chinoiserie and Modernism. 8: The Oriental and the Music Hall: Sound and Space in Thomas Burke's Limehouse Chinatown9: Staging China, Excising the Chinese: Lady Precious Stream and the Darker Side of Chinoiserie; 10. Chinoiserie: An Unrequited Architectural Affair; Notes on Contributors; Index.
This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism.
9780748690978 9780748690961
GBB8K8057 bnb
017733870 Uk 019112574 Uk
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Chinoiserie (Art)--Great Britain.
Art, British--Chinese influences.
Modernism (Aesthetics)--Great Britain.
Electronic Books.
NX650 / .B758 2015