British Modernism and Chinoiserie. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anne Witchard.
• Editors: Anne Witchard
• Contents: Acknowledgements; List of Plates; List of Figures; Introduction: 'the lucid atmosphere of fine Cathay'; 1: China and the Formation of the Modernist Aesthetic Ideal; 2: Shared Affinities: Katherine Mansfield, Ling Shuhua and Virginia Woolf; 3: Roger Fry, Chinese Art and The Burlington Magazine; 4: Chinese Artistic Influences on the Vorticists in London; 5: The Idea of the Chinese Garden and British Aesthetic Modernism; 6: 'Beautiful, baleful absurdity': Chinoiserie and Modernist Ballet; 7: Fashion, Chinoiserie and Modernism. 8: The Oriental and the Music Hall: Sound and Space in Thomas Burke's Limehouse Chinatown9: Staging China, Excising the Chinese: Lady Precious Stream and the Darker Side of Chinoiserie; 10. Chinoiserie: An Unrequited Architectural Affair; Notes on Contributors; Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 700.9; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Chinoiserie (Art) -- Great Britain; Art, British -- Chinese influences; Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Great Britain; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; ART -- Performance; ART -- Reference; Chinoiserie (Art); English literature; Modernism (Aesthetics); Great Britain; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748690978; 0748690972; 9780748690961; 0748690964
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