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Sit in China - An Excursion through 500 Years of the Culture of Sitting (Hardcover) Loot Price: R916
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Sit in China - An Excursion through 500 Years of the Culture of Sitting (Hardcover): Volker Fischer, Stephan Von Der Schulenburg

Sit in China - An Excursion through 500 Years of the Culture of Sitting (Hardcover)

Volker Fischer, Stephan Von Der Schulenburg

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Text in English & German. The way we sit simultaneously defines privileges, social status, power, and taboos. Parallel to the presentation of China as the guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt presents a panorama of Chinese sitting culture through a period of five centuries. Exclusive, noble Ming chairs stand side by side with chairs of the 18th and 19th century used by the middle class of that time. Limited sitting sculptures by renowned artist designers such as Shao Fan, Freeman Lau, Kenneth Cobonpue, XYZ-Design and Ji Liwei, who is also in charge of the interior design of the Chinese pavilion at the book fair, are confronted with the bourgeois sofas and sitting of the Chinese middle class of today. The "Bastard Chairs" of migrant workers and the homeless, day-to-day seats improvised out of pure need and made of trash and leftover materials, are commented in the sitting contexts of celebrities: emperors and courtesans, politicians and pop stars, athletes and students of product design show how sitting was done formerly and is done today. It ranges from a man of letters from the Ming era to the Qianglong emperor on the throne to Mao and Nixon in characteristic armchairs in Mao's best room. The most famous contemporary Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, will also be represented with an excerpt of his grandiose chair performance at the Dokumenta XII. Of course, product piracy, which -- as the typical Chinese dipping figure "Shanzhai" -- has mean-while adopted characteristics that define society, is also dealt with.

General

Imprint: Edition Axel Menges
Country of origin: Germany
Release date: November 2009
First published: June 2010
Authors: Volker Fischer • Stephan Von Der Schulenburg
Dimensions: 311 x 256 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 978-3-936681-36-9
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Product design
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Decorative arts & crafts > Furniture & cabinetmaking > General
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LSN: 3-936681-36-8
Barcode: 9783936681369

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