Sit in China : An Excursion Through 500 Years of the Culture of Sitting/ Ein Streifzug durch 500 jahre Kultur des Sitzens

Fischer, Volker; Von Der Schulenburg, Stephan; Bugener, Annette (CON); Grindley, Nicholas (CON); Jiang, Li (CON)

ISBN 10: 3936681368 / ISBN 13: 9783936681369

Published by Edition Axel Menges, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sit in China : An Excursion Through 500 Years of the Culture of Sitting/ Ein Streifzug durch 500 jahre Kultur des Sitzens
• Publisher: Edition Axel Menges
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3936681368
• ISBN 13: 9783936681369
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The way we sit simultaneously defines privileges, social status, power, and taboos. Parallel to the presentation of China as the guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt presents a panorama of Chinese sitting culture through a period of five centuries.

About the Author

The internationally known architecture and design historian Volker Fischer was deputy director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main for over ten years. Since 1995 he has built up a new design department in the Museum for Applied Arts in Frankfurt; in addition to his museum work he teaches history of architecture and design at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Offenbach. Stephan von der Schulenburg studied art history, philosophy, German language and literature, Japanology and Sinology in Munich, Berlin, Tokyo, Kyoto and Heidelberg. After an internship at the Linden-Museum Stuttgart he became the curator of the Asian collection at the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt in 1990. He has staged numerous exhibitions and written widely on East Asian art, with a focus on Chinese ceramics, Japanese Art in the early Edo period and East Asian contemporary art. He has taught at the University of Bonn in 2001.