Imagining Sculpture

Name: Imagining Sculpture
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SKU: 9783777437583
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By Stanley Abe

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Imagining Sculpture by Stanley Abe explores the historical and cultural development of sculpture in China. The book delves into how sculpture was conceptualised and appreciated over time, addressing its transformation and interaction with various cultural contexts. It offers a fascinating look at how the identity and status of sculpture evolved within Chinese art history.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in exploring the ways sculpture has been perceived and conceptualised, particularly within the context of Chinese art. It delves into the complex relationship between cultural representation and artistic practice, offering a fresh perspective for those fascinated by art history and cultural studies.

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Sculpture is just a word, an English word, which elicits an image in the mind's eye. Sculpture is a European idea. In China, statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia but not valued or collected as Sculpture. There was no Sculpture in China. Imagining Sculpture is the story of this something that did not exist.

Imagining Sculpture is a series of short vignettes, historical and fictional. Travellers, scholars, officials, collectors, and antiquarians encounter statues, figures, and effigies in China, Japan, England, Germany, France, Italy, and the United States from the fourteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Imagining Sculpture is visual, cinematic and sumptuous—told with rare photographs, paintings, sketches, letters, and ephemera. With little text, the argument is made by the images. Imagining Sculpture offers a new kind of visual narrative and provides a radically different way of seeing and knowing.

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Imagining Sculpture by Stanley Abe is lauded for its insightful exploration of how sculpture is conceptualised and perceived within different cultural and historical contexts. Reviewers appreciate Abe's critical approach, noting the depth of research and analysis he brings to the subject, along with his ability to challenge conventional interpretations. The book is praised for its contribution to the understanding of the role and significance of sculpture in artistic discourse.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783777437583

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 January 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Illustration: Illustrated in colour throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 175.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 1320g

Pages: 384

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Stanley Abe

About the Author

Stanley Abe is associate professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Ordinary Images and served as editor in chief of Archives of Asian Art from 2011 to 2018.