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British Modernism and Chinoiserie

Title
British Modernism and Chinoiserie / edited by Anne Witchard.
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015].

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Additional Authors
Witchard, Anne Veronica
Description
x, 235 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: "the lucid atmosphere of fine Cathay" / Anne Witchard -- China and the formation of the modernist aesthetic ideal / David Porter -- Shared affinities : Katherine Mansfield, Ling Shuhua and Virginia Woolf / Patricia Laurence -- Roger Fry, Chinese art and The Burlington magazine / Ralph Parfect -- Chinese artistic influences on the vorticists in London / Michelle Ying-Ling Huang -- The idea of the Chinese garden and British aesthetic modernism / Elizabeth Chang -- "Beautiful, baleful absurdity" : chinoiserie and modernist ballet / Anne Witchard -- Fashion, chinoiserie and modernism / Sarah Cheang -- The Oriental and the music hall : sound and space in Thomas Burke's Limehouse Chinatown / Paul Kendall -- Staging China, excising the Chinese : Lady Precious Stream and the darker side of chinoiserie / Diana Yeh -- Chinoiserie : an unrequited architectural affair / Edward Denison.
Call Number
JFE 15-3008
ISBN
  • 9780748690954
  • 0748690956
LCCN
60001999432
OCLC
892458773
Title
British Modernism and Chinoiserie / edited by Anne Witchard.
Publisher
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015].
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Witchard, Anne Veronica, editor.
Other Standard Identifier
60001999432
Research Call Number
JFE 15-3008
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