TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anne Witchard,
TI  - British Modernism and Chinoiserie /Anne Witchard
SN  - 9780748690978
AV  - NX650 .B758 2015
PY  - 2015///
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Chinoiserie (Art)
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Art, British
KW  - Chinese influences
KW  - Modernism (Aesthetics)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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