Dimensions of Originality：Essays on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Theory and Criticism

Dimensions of Originality investigates the issue of conceptual originality in art criticism of the seventeenth century, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. In art criticism, the term which was called upon to indicate conceptual originality more than any other was qi 奇, literally, "different"; but secondarily, "odd," like a number and by extension, "the novel," and "extraordinary." This work finds that originality, expressed through visual difference, was a paradigmatic concern of both artists and critics. Burnett speculates on why many have dismissed originality as a possible "traditional Chinese" value, and the ramifications this has had on art historical understanding. She further demonstrates that a study of individual key terms can reveal social and cultural values and provides a linear history of the increase in critical use of qi as "originality" from the fifth through the seventeenth centuries, exploring what originality looks like in artworks by members of the gentry elite and commoner classes

作者簡介：

KATHARINE P. BURNETT is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis where she specializes in Chinese art and culture

• 作者： Katharine P. Burnett
• 出版社： 香港中文大學出版社 出版日期：2013-04-01 ISBN/ISSN：9789629964566
• 語言：繁體中文 裝訂方式：平裝 頁數：444頁
• 類別： 中文書> 華文文學> 華文文學研究