This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance
of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual
culture from ancient times to the present. Leading scholar of
Chinese art Wu Hung shows how the story of ruins in China is
different from but connected to "ruin culture" in the West. He
investigates indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual
manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions
between China and the West since the eighteenth century.
Analyzing a broad variety of traditional and contemporary
visual materials, including painting, architecture, photography,
prints, and cinema, Wu also embraces a wide variety of
subjects--from indigenous methods of recording damage and decay in
ancient China, to realistic images of architectural ruins in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the strong interest in urban
ruins in contemporary China, as shown in the many artworks that
depict demolished houses and decaying industrial sites. The result
is an original interpretation of the development of Chinese art, as
well as a unique contribution to global art history.
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