British Modernism and Chinoiserie

ISBN-13: 9780748690954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 256 str.

Anne Witchard; Anne Witchard

Opis

This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction: ‘the lucid atmosphere of fine Cathay’, Anne Witchard; 1. China and the Formation of the Modernist Aesthetic Ideal, David Porter; 2. Shared Affinities: Katherine Mansfield, Ling Shuhua and Virginia Woolf, Patricia Laurence; 3. Roger Fry, Chinese Art and the Burlington Magazine, Ralph Parfect; 4. Chinese Artistic Influences on the Vorticists in London, Michelle Ying-Ling Huang; 5. The Idea of the Chinese Garden and British Aesthetic Modernism, Elizabeth Chang; 6. ‘Beautiful, baleful absurdity’: Chinoiserie and Modernist Ballet, Anne Witchard; 7. Fashion, Chinoiserie and Modernism, Sarah Cheang; 8. The Oriental and the Music Hall: Sound and Space in Thomas Burke’s Limehouse Chinatown, Paul Kendall; 9. Staging China, Excising the Chinese: Lady Precious Stream and The Darker Side of Chinoiserie, Diana Yeh; 10. Chinoiserie: An Unrequited Architectural Affair, Edward Denison