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Portrayals Of Women In Chen Hongshou’S Figure Paintings, Lai Na Wan
Portrayals Of Women In Chen Hongshou’S Figure Paintings, Lai Na Wan
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Chen Hongshou (1598/1599-1652), a famous artist of late Ming and early Qing China, was particularly well-known for his figure paintings, which exerted a noticeable influence on later generations and has been the subject most commonly discussed by scholars. Among Chen’s figure painting oeuvre, this study is especially concerned with his portrayals of women ranging between the 1630s and 1650s with an intention to explore what their representations, audience and function reveal about the artist. The existing monographs on Chen’s female figures is limited to only few case studies, from which the artist’s depictions of women have not been clearly sorted …
A Study Of The Aesthetics Of The Hong Kong Built Environment : Architectural Harmonisation Versus Urban Incivility, Kwok Wah Tung
A Study Of The Aesthetics Of The Hong Kong Built Environment : Architectural Harmonisation Versus Urban Incivility, Kwok Wah Tung
Theses & Dissertations
The aim of the study is to evaluate the aesthetic qualities of the Hong Kong built environment. To this end, it adopts the framework of the philosophy of architecture in the analytic tradition as proposed by Roger Scruton in his classic The Aesthetics of Architecture, which was first published in 1979. Central to this framework is our aesthetic sense of appropriateness, which leads to a distinctive reading of architecture as an art of the ensemble. From this perspective, the chief architectural task is to establish right visual relations among the parts of a whole. Aesthetically, this results in the …