The Great Wall of China: photographs by Chen Changfen  -  Chen, Changfen

Photographs by Chen Changfen (Houston Museum of Fine Arts)

KORTE INHOUD

Chen Changfen (b. 1941) began to photograph the Great Wall twenty years before the Chinese government officially adopted it as the national symbol in 1984. This fascinating book presents a small fraction of his decades-long study of the monumental form and conveys the fertile range of themes and ideas that Chen has investigated, each informed by traditional Chinese art, history, and philosophy. Combining a unique blend of traditional and contemporary technical processes, Chen’s richly evocative photographs ...
2007 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2007 Uitgever: Yale University Press 150 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0300122470 ISBN-13: 9780300122473