Traditional woodblock printing is a Chinese folk art that has now nearly vanished. The London-based Muban Educational Trust holds a rich collection of popular prints from this tradition. Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints reproduces eighty-four of these prints from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with analytical commentary. Woodblock printing was the principal method of producing inexpensive and colorful single-sheet images for mass consumption in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China. Prints of this type are known today as "New Year pictures" because the demand for them peaked around New Year. However, the term "popular print" more accurately describes these works whose subjects include deities and tutelary spirits, illustrations to stories and operas, and even contemporary political or revolutionary messages.
Art and Aesthetics emphasizes the artistic aspects of these prints, appealing to Chinese art historians but also to those interested in Chinese anthropology, popular religion, Chinese and other folk art, and traditional crafts.
| ISBN: | 9780892641543 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 2002 |
| Author: | Ellen Johnston Laing, Muban Foundation |
| Publisher: | University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies an imprint of University of Michigan Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 206 pages |
| Series: | Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies |
| Genres: |
Ethnic studies The arts: general topics |
Traditional woodblock printing is a Chinese folk art that has now nearly vanished. The London-based Muban Educational Trust holds a rich collection of popular prints from this tradition. Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints reproduces eighty-four of these prints from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with analytical commentary. Woodblock printing was the principal method of producing inexpensive and colorful single-sheet images for mass consumption in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China. Prints of this type are known today as "New Year pictures" because the demand for them peaked around New Year. However, the term "popular print" more accurately describes these works whose subjects include deities and tutelary spirits, illustrations to stories and operas, and even contemporary political or revolutionary messages.
Art and Aesthetics emphasizes the artistic aspects of these prints, appealing to Chinese art historians but also to those interested in Chinese anthropology, popular religion, Chinese and other folk art, and traditional crafts.
Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints features in the following genres: Ethnic studies, The arts: general topics
Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints is available in Paperback
Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints was written by Ellen Johnston Laing, Muban Foundation and published by University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies an imprint of University of Michigan Press
Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints has 206 pages
Yes it is part of Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies series