Dehua porcelain figures of Budai : models of adaptivity in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century China and "Europe"

Author:

Volk, Cynthia

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

[New York City] : The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, 2021 and ©2021

Subject:

Dehua ware - China - Fujian Sheng - History
Buddhas in art - History - 17th century
Porcelain figures - China - Fujian Sheng
Porcelain, Chinese - Appreciation - Europe
Porcelain industry - China - Fujian Sheng - History
China - Foreign relations - Europe - History - 17th century
Europe - Foreign relations - China - History - 17th century
Cultural relations - History - 17th century
Orientalism - Europe - History - 17th century

Contributor:

Collins, Jeffrey, advisor
Gaskell, Ivan, reader

Description:

ix, 82 leaves : color illustrations, map ; 28 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-82)

Contents:

I. Introduction -- II. China -- Tumult and transition -- Budai : monk and maitreya -- Dehua kilns : revival in mountains -- III. Europe -- Idealism and consumerism -- Blanc de Chine -- Pagodes and magots : friends and enemies -- IV. Budai : a transcultural transformation -- V. Conclusion

Note:

See Librarian

Collection:

BGC Thesis Collection