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

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

Burnett, Katharine P.

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Art Criticism & TheoryChinese HistoryChinese Art

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ISBN10: 9629964562
ISBN13: 9789629964566
Publisher: Chinese Univ Of Hong Kong Pr
Published: Jul 12 2011
Pages: 450
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Dimensions of Originality investigates the issue of conceptual originality in seventeenth-century art criticism, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. The term which was called upon to indicate conceptual originality more than any other was qi, literally, different; but secondarily, odd, like a number and, by extension, the novel and extraordinary. Burnett speculates on why many have dismissed originality as a traditional Chinese value, and the ramifications this has had on understanding. She further demonstrates that a study of key terms can reveal social and cultural values, and provides a linear history of the increase in use of qi as originality through the seventeenth centuries.

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