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Dimensions of Originality

Katharine P. Burnett
US $59.00
publisher date
2013/02
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isbn
9789629964566
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book format
ePub
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publisher name
香港中文大學出版社
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Art > General Art
Dimensions of Originality investigates the issue of conceptual originality in seventeenth-century art criticism, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. The term which was called upon to indicate conceptual originality more than any other was qi, literally, "different"; but secondarily, "odd," like a number and, by extension, "the novel" and "extraordinary." Burnett speculates on why many have dismissed originality as a "traditional Chinese" value, and the ramifications this has had on understanding. She further demonstrates that a study of key terms can reveal social and cultural values, and provides a linear history of the increase in use of qi as "originality" through the seventeenth centuries.

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Katharine P. Burnett
Katharine P. Burnett is associate professor of art history at the University of California, Davis where she specializes in Chinese art and culture.

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