Emblems of Empire: Selections from the Mactaggart Art Collection - Hardcover

Vollmer, John E.; Simcox, Jacqueline

9780888644862: Emblems of Empire: Selections from the Mactaggart Art Collection

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0888644868 ISBN 13: 9780888644862

Publisher: University of Alberta Press, 2010

In this sumptuous volume, John Vollmer and Jacqueline Simcox showcase 72 objects focused on the emperors of China from the Mactaggart Art Collection at the University of Alberta Museums, one of the foremost collections of Chinese paintings and textiles in the world. Full-colour images and informative text introduce both the works from the collection and how they served as emblems of imperial order and power during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911). Students, collectors, museum visitors, scholars, historians, and individuals interested in Chinese art will be stirred by the sensuous interplay of hierarchy and design of the painted and textile arts of the Chinese Imperial court, as explored and illuminated in this book.

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Book Description:

A showcase of objects focused on the emperors of China from the Mactaggart Art Collection at the University of Alberta Museums.

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Pattern, colour and lustre-the characteristics that attracted the Mactaggarts to Chinese textiles-are the very aspects that were most highly esteemed by the civilization that created and used them.. From ancient times, silk came to embody the cultural values of the highest echelons of that society: scholarship, hierarchy, precedent and wealth, but particularly the cosmic intent of imperial rule. -Authors' Introduction In Emblems of Empire: Selections from the Mactaggart Art Collection, John Vollmer and Jacqueline Simcox showcase 72 objects focused on the emperors of China. The Mactaggart Art Collection at the University of Alberta Museums is one of the foremost collections of Chinese paintings and textiles in the world and this pioneering study of the artifacts enhances our understanding of it immeasurably. Full-colour images and informative text introduce the objects from the collection and show how they served as emblems of imperial order and power during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911). Historians, scholars, collectors, museum visitors, students, and individuals interested in Chinese art will be stirred by the sensuous interplay of hierarchy and design in the painted and textile arts of the Chinese Imperial court, as explored and illuminated in this book.

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