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Between Past and Future New Photography and Video from China by Hung Wu
Category: Photography Books
Celestial Realm - The Yellow Mountains of China by Wang Wusheng (Photographer); Wu Hung (Contribution by); Damian Harper; Seigo Matsuoka
Category: Photography
A lavishly produced volume featuring stunning duotone images of China's fabled Yellow Mountains by the celebrated photographer Wang Wusheng. For more than three decades, Wang Wusheng has been captivated by the beauty of Mount Huangshan, also known as the Yellow Mountains. Located in the southern par ...Show more
Chinese Art and Dynastic Time by Wu Hung
Category: Art | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art history Throughout Chinese history, dynastic time--the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties--has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chine ...Show more
Contemporary Chinese Art - A History (1970s-2000s) by Wu Hung
Category: Art
In this first systematic introduction to contemporary Chinese art, Wu Hung provides an accessible, focused and much-needed narrative of the development of Chinese art across all media from the 1970s to the 2000s. From its underground genesis during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), contemporary Chinese ...Show more
The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History by Wu Hung
Category: History
Explores the full-length mirror through history, as well as in material culture. This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craft ...Show more
Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting by Richard M. Barnhart; Yang Xin; Nie Chongzheng; James Cahill; Lang Shaojun; Wu Hung
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Culture and Civilization of China Ser.
From Neolithic painted petroglyphs, early paintings on silk, and landscapes by twelfth-century literati to the traditional handscrolls being produced today, Chinese painting has always had the power to enthrall. This magnificent book, written by a team of eminent international scholars, is the first to ...Show more
Yin Xiuzhen by Hung Wu
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
A leading female figure in Chinese contemporary art, Yin Xiuzhen (b. 1963, Beijing, China) began her career in the early 1990s following her graduation from Capital Normal University in Beijing where she received a B.A. from the Fine Arts Department in 1989. Best known for her works that incorporate sec ...Show more
Zooming In - Histories of Photography in China by Wu Hung
Category: Photography Books
From the first sets of photographic records made by Western travelers to doctored portraits of Chairman Mao and the avant-garde photographic performances of the post-Cultural Revolution era, photography in China has followed divergent paths. In this book, Wu Hung explores the multiple histories of photo ...Show more
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