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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Cross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity
is the first book in English that examines how the architecture and
the urban landscape of Guangzhou framed the relations between the
Western mercantile and missionary communities and the city's
predominantly Chinese population. The book takes readers through
three phases: the Thirteen Factories era from the eighteenth
century to the 1850s; the Shamian enclave up to the early twentieth
century; and the adoption of Western building techniques throughout
the city as its architecture modernized in the early Republic. The
discussion of architecture goes beyond stylistic trends to embrace
the history of shared and disputed spaces, using a broadly
chronological approach that combines social history with
architectural and spatial analysis. With nearly a hundred carefully
chosen images, this book illustrates how the foreign architectural
footprints of the past form the modern Guangzhou.
Women and Art surveys the history of women in art and addresses the
effects of feminist art history and art production. This book is
among the first to offer a critical assessment of the role of
feminism in art history and how it has presented and misrepresented
women's roles in art. Seeking to counterbalance overwhelmingly
pro-feminist narratives, it relies on evidence from artists,
statisticians, and historians to support individual women artists
while remaining critical of feminism. Cogent and persuasive, Women
and Art stands as a key for students and researchers interested in
art history, gender studies, feminism, and cultural studies.
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