A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

by Wu Hung

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069115502X
• ISBN13: 9780691155029
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.7" x 10.0"