254 Pages
19 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
254 Pages
19 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
254 Pages
19 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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What is design in modern China? And what are the ecological stakes in understanding how modern Chinese design encourages us to see? This book takes up these questions though exploration into the work of three famous designers who were actively engaged with the natural sciences in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Canton, and Beijing.
The designed objects asking for heightened vision into... Read more
Part 1 The Revolutionary Boundary-Form 1. Insect and Design Sciences 2. Aesthetics of the Assassin: Gao Jianfu’s Porcelain Designs Part 2 The Enchanted Boundary-Form 3. Industrial Age Plants and Chen Zhifo’s Textile Designs 4. Chen Zhifo’s Design Fictions Part 3 Sadness and Joy at the Boundaries 5. Yu Fei’an’s Colours 6. Birds’ Eye Views: Yu Fei’an’s Pigeon Paintings
Biography
Lisa Claypool is Associate Professor of the history of art, design, and visual culture at the University of Alberta.
