Chinese Reverse Glass Painting 1720-1820: An Artistic Meeting Between China and the West. Preface by Danielle Elisseeff

ISBN-13: 9783034338219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

Thierry Audric

Opis

Displaying a talent for combining aesthetic sensibility with scientific rigor, the author has given new life to something that once excited European passions: an original, non-academic art at the forefront of the 'new technology' of the time.

Spis treści

I The dawn of reverse glass painting in China

II A Chinese motifs,

II B Western motifs,

II C Transpositions of Western artworks

II E Frames

III A Painters and their workshops

III B The market from 1720 to 1820

III C Influence outside China

IV The market in China and the West

O autorze

In 1977, Thierry Audric left his position as associate professor in Geology at the École nationale supérieure des Mines in Paris, to start a career as cultural and scientific cooperation counsellor at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His duties led him to live nearly twenty years in Asia, four of which in China where he discovered the fascinating beauty of Chinese reverse glass painting. In 2007, he decided to research this art, and discovered that it was born in the Eighteenth-century in Canton, from an artistic encounter between China and the West. Eager to make this art more widely known and appreciated, he wrote this book based on the dissertation he defended in 2016 at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.