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Dimensions of Originality
Katharine P. Burnett
US $59.00
2013/02
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9789629964566
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ePub
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香港中文大學出版社
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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.
About the author(s)
View moreKatharine 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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