British Modernism and Chinoiserie /Anne Witchard. 

 -  Edinburgh University Press,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780748690978 9780748690961 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBB8K8057  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>017733870  Uk 019112574  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English literature--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Chinoiserie (Art)--Great Britain.<br/>Art, British--Chinese influences.<br/>Modernism (Aesthetics)--Great Britain.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NX650  / .B758 2015