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Art and aesthetics in Chinese popular prints : selections from the Muban Foundation collection / Ellen Johnston Laing.

Title
Art and aesthetics in Chinese popular prints : selections from the Muban Foundation collection / Ellen Johnston Laing.
Author
Laing, Ellen Johnston.
Publication
Ann Arbor : Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, c2002.

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Muban Foundation.
Description
ix, 206 p. : col. ill.; 28 cm.
Summary
Traditional woodblock prints preserve a Chinese folk art that has now nearly vanished. This book explores and explains the artistic and aesthetic bases of popular prints revealed in eighty-four late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prints belonging to the London-based Muban Foundation. Woodblock printing was the principal method of producing inexpensive and colorful single-sheet images for mass consumption in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China. Prints of this type are known today as "New Year pictures" because the demand for them peaked at New Year's time. However, the term "popular print" more accurately describes these works, whose subjects include deities and tutelary spirits, illustrations to stories and operas, and even contemporary political or revolutionary messages. The emphasis on the artistic aspects of these prints makes this publication uniquely appealing to Chinese art historians but also to those interested in Chinese anthropology, popular religion, Chinese and other folk art, and traditional crafts.
Series Statement
Michigan monographs in Chinese studies, 1081-9053 ; v. 94
Uniform Title
Michigan monographs in Chinese studies no. 94.
Subject
  • Muban Foundation > Catalogs
  • 1368-1999
  • Wood-engraving, Chinese > Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912 > Catalogs
  • Wood-engraving, Chinese > 20th century > Catalogs
  • Gods in art > Catalogs
  • Folk art > China > Catalogs
  • Prints > Private collections > London > Catalogs
Genre/Form
Catalogs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-202) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0892641541 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001055259
OCLC
48265656
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library