Jennifer Purtle (12 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. (7.5 x 1 x 10.5 inches) Includes a glossary, index, and photos. 360 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II examines multiple dimensions of visual modernity in East Asia from the nineteenth century through the early decades of the twentieth. The papers were drawn from two symposia held at the Center for the Art of East Asia in the Department of Art History, the University of Chicago, which brought out important themes in East Asian Art and visual culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including photography, cinema, and fashion, changing roles of women, commercialization of art, and the impact of Western cultures. They undertook a broad interpretation of visual modernity to include visual dimensions of human endeavor traditionally seen as outside of artistic production in order to encourage exploration of new and understudied materials across disciplinary boundaries. This volume not only provides important background in the growth of modern visual culture in East Asia, but also is a collection of seminal research on specific topics that have a broad impact upon present-day visual arts of China and Japan.…

stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 114 pages. Preface by Anne Dondertman, introduction by Riolfo, note to the reader regarding Romanization of Chinese characters and translations from the Chinese, acknowledgments, bibliography. Contributions by Stephen Qiao. Catalogue of an exhibition (June-September 2016) in observance of the 50th anniversary of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China. Color illustrations throughout. Includes Chinese titles of many of the exhibited items. Highlights include: a selection of rare propaganda posters from the seminal phase of the Cultural Revolution (1966-69); contemporaneous books such as The Selected Works of Mao Zedong and The Quotations of Chairman Mao (as well as translations of Mao's works); and artifacts from the Cultural Revolution related to literacy and the practice of reading, including Mao badges, paper cuts, archival photographs, pamphlets, postcards, and children's toys. This exhibition was curated by Jennifer Purtle, Associate Professor of Chinese and East Asian Art Department of Art, Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto, with assistance from Stephen Qiao of the East Asian Library at the University of Toronto and Liz Ridolo, Special Projects Librarian at the Fisher Library. China (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Pictorial boards, 327 pages, 32 pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour); 27 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II examines multiple dimensions of visual modernity in East Asia from the nineteenth century through the early decades of the twentieth. The papers were drawn from two symposia held at the Center for the Art of East Asia in the Department of Art History, the University of Chicago, which brought out important themes in East Asian Art and visual culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including photography, cinema, and fashion, changing roles of women, commercialization of art, and the impact of Western cultures. They undertook a broad interpretation of visual modernity to include visual dimensions of human endeavor traditionally seen as outside of artistic production in order to encourage exploration of new and understudied materials across disciplinary boundaries. This volume not only provides important background in the growth of modern visual culture in East Asia, but also is a collection of seminal research on specific topics that have a broad impact upon present-day visual arts of China and Japan." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: CHINA. Introduction: twin stars of the silver screen and modern looking China, by Jennifer Purtle; The crisis of the real: portraiture and photography in late nineteenth century Shanghai, by Chia-ling Yang; Between the boudoir and the global market: Shen Shou, embroidery, and modernity at the turn of the twentieth century, by Dorothy Ko; Picture calendars in late imperial China: art and commerce, by Ellen Johnston Laing; An entrepreneur in an "adventurer's paradise": Star Talbot and his innovative contributions to the art business of modern Shanghai, by Zaixin Hong; Money making nation: picturing political economy in banknotes of the Qing-Republican transition, by Jennifer Purtle; Renewing, remapping, and redefining Guangzhou, 1910s-1930s, by Delin Lai; JAPAN. Introduction: looking modern in Japan, by Hans Bjarne Thomsen; Marketing health and the modern body: patent medicine advertisements in Meiji-Taisho Japan, by Susan L. Burns; The girl with the horse-dung hairdo, by David L. Howell; Japan's national treasure system and the commodification of art, by Julie Christ Oakes; Planes, trains and games: selling Japan's war in Asia, by Barak Kushner; Capturing visions of Japan's prehistoric past: Torii Ryuzo's field photographs of "primitive" races and lost civilizations (1896-1915), by Hyung Il Pai. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback, light wear.

Super octavo, black card boards, VG+; in d/w, VG (photos available on request).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 114 pp, illus, biblio. [26].

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 114 pages. Catalogue of an exhibition (June-September 2016) in observance of the 50th anniversary of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China. Color illustrations throughout. Includes Chinese titles of many of the exhibited items. Quite scarce. An excellent copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine condition. Near fine condition (DJ). First Edition. 327 pages of text including a glossary and an index. Hardcover binding in new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with minimal shelfwear, in almost new condition; protected in archival mylar. Contains numerous black & white illustrations as well as 32 color plates. Includes an errata sheet, correcting numerous textual errors. With contributions by Jennifer Purtle, Chia-ling Yang, Dorothy Ko, Ellen Johnston Laing, Zaixin Hong, Delin Lai, Hans Bjarne Thomsen, Susan L. Burns, David L. Howell, Julie Christ Oakes, Barak Kushner, and Hyung Il Pai. Published by The Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, by Art Media Resources. Previous owner's gift inscription neatly on the half title page. The text is clean and unmarked. ISBN: 978-1-588886-105-4. First edition. Size: Quarto (4to). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 10 1/4" x 7 1/8", xxvi, 180 pages, 26 black and white plates. This is a provocative essay of reflections on traditional mainstream scholarship on Chinese art as done by towering figures in the field such as James Cahill and Wen Fong. James Elkins offers an engaging and accessible survey of his personal journey encountering and interpreting Chinese art through Western scholars' writings. He argues that the search for optimal comparisons is itself a modern, Western interest, and that art history as a discipline is inherently Western in several identifiable senses. Although he concentrates on art history in this book, and on Chinese painting in particular, these issues bear implications for Sinology in general, and for wider questions about humanistic inquiry and historical writing. --Jennifer Purtle's Foreword provides a useful counterpoint from the perspective of a Chinese art specialist, anticipating and responding to other specialists' likely reactions to Elkins's hypotheses. This book is a stimulating read for the specialist and non-specialist alike, challenging them to reconsider their fundamental assumptions about art history and to rethink the art historical project in broader terms.--James Elkins teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago--"The issues which Elkins raises are . . . fascinating, thoughtful, and provocative. Only an 'outsider' to the field could raise them, and Elkins is perhaps the only outsider who could . . . . Exemplary." - Jerome Silbergeld, Princeton University. Hb in dw, virtually as new.…

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnAls einige St. Galler Kaufleute 1859 eine erste Erkundungsreise nach Ostasien initiierten, wirkten die gestickten Edelweisse auf den hiesigen Stoffen noch steif und leblos. Aus den Handelskontakten entwickelte sich schon bald ein .