
Original Intentions
Essays on Production, Reproduction, and Interpretation in the Arts of China
University Press of Florida
Published on 30. April 2012
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-8130-3972-5 (ISBN)
Description
For both museums and collectors, questions of ""authenticity"" often dominate the decision to acquire a new work. This issue is especially thorny for Westerners when dealing with Chinese art. Believing that everything has a precedent, Chinese artists were never bashful about reproducing art, typically seeing less of a difference between the original work and reproductions. As a result, replication has often been considered a fundamental mode of production in Chinese art, with roots extending to antiquity. In turn, some collectors would knowingly brandish originals next to replicas while others completely rejected the idea of imitations as artworks.
The essays in Original Intentions explore the highly controversial questions of faking, copying, and replicating Chinese painting, bronzes, ceramics, works on paper, and sculpture. Offering a broad range of perspectives on conservation, technical analysis, social history, and collecting, the contributors to the volume explore the question of authenticity in the arts of China. Essays feature both theoretical and object-based research in a broad chronological framework, addressing a wide range of issues in both Chinese and Western contexts.
The essays in Original Intentions explore the highly controversial questions of faking, copying, and replicating Chinese painting, bronzes, ceramics, works on paper, and sculpture. Offering a broad range of perspectives on conservation, technical analysis, social history, and collecting, the contributors to the volume explore the question of authenticity in the arts of China. Essays feature both theoretical and object-based research in a broad chronological framework, addressing a wide range of issues in both Chinese and Western contexts.
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Nicholas Pearce, professor of Chinese art and Head of the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow, is the author of Photographs of Peking, China, 1861-1908. Jason Steuber, Cofrin Curator of Asian Art for the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, is the author of China: 3000 Years of Art and Literature.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Florida
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
146
Dimensions
Height: 319 mm
Width: 268 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
2205 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8130-3972-5 (9780813039725)
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Nicholas Pearce, professor of Chinese art and Head of the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow, is the author of Photographs of Peking, China, 1861-1908. Jason Steuber, Cofrin Curator of Asian Art for the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, is the author of China: 3000 Years of Art and Literature.