A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture - Wu Hung - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691155029 - July 22, 2012
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A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture


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Examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. In this book, the author shows how the story of ruins in China is different from but connected to "ruin culture" in the West.


296 pages, 250 color illus.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 22, 2012
ISBN13 9780691155029
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 296
Dimensions 190 × 251 × 25 mm   ·   1.13 kg

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