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Author: Sam I-Shan
Publisher:
Published: 2021-07-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789811449413
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This publication spotlights the fourth work in the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series by Cao Fei, Fú Chá. An accompaniment to her kinetic installation, this artist's book features a text by curator Sam I-Shan, essays by Cao Fei as well as a poem by the artist Liao Huilan, alongside full-colour images of the commission.
Author: Sam I-Shan
Publisher: National Gallery Singapore
Published: 2023-11-13
Total Pages: 61
ISBN-13: 9811887969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This publication spotlights 浮槎 Fú Chá, a kinetic installation commissioned for the Gallery’s Roof Garden series. It includes a curatorial essay on the work by curator Sam I-shan, a poem by the artist Liao Huilan and a series of vignettes by Cao Fei herself.
Author: Lim Qinyi
Publisher: National Gallery Singapore
Published: 2024-05-02
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9811899959
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This catalogue for Antony Gormley’s largest-ever showing in Singapore features stunning full-colour plates of the installations at National Gallery Singapore, including the fifth Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission, Horizon Field Singapore. This publication also contains an interview with the artist by Eugene Tan, an essay by exhibition curators Qinyi Lim and Russell Storer, and an essay by cultural critic Ackbar Abbas, which continues his investigation into the situatedness of Gormley’s practice.
Author: Charmaine Toh
Publisher: National Gallery Singapore
Published: 2023-11-13
Total Pages: 61
ISBN-13: 9811887985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the inaugural exhibition of the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission series, which invites leading international artists to create site-specific installations at the Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Gallery, made possible by a gift from the family of Ng Teng Fong. Published to accompany this exhibition, this catalogue delves deeper into Danh’s practice and broader discussions surrounding cross-cultural identity through essays by leading scholar Professor Nora Taylor and National Gallery Singapore curator Charmaine Toh alongside full-colour images of the commissioned work.
Author: Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 067403306X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled in the capital, while Chinese entrepreneurs set off for the wider world, the beginning of a global diaspora. The emergence of an economically and culturally dominant south that was controlled from a northern capital set a pattern for the rest of Chinese imperial history. Poems celebrated the glories of the capital, meditated on individual loneliness in its midst, and described heroic young men and beautiful women who filled city streets and bars. Despite the romantic aura attached to the Tang, it was not a time of unending peace. In 756, General An Lushan led a revolt that shook the country to its core, weakening the government to such a degree that by the early tenth century, regional warlordism gripped many areas, heralding the decline of the Great Tang.
Author: Stephen Selby
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9622095011
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chinese Archery is a broad view of traditional archery in China as seen through the eyes of historians, philosophers, poets, artists, novelists and strategists from 1500 BC until the present century. The book is written around parallel text translations of classical chinese sources some famous and some little known in which Chinese writers give vivid and detailed explanations of the techniques of bow-building, archery and crossbow technique over the centuries. The author is both a sinologist and practising archer; his translations make the original Chinese texts accessible to the non-specialist. Written for readers who may never have picked up a book about China, but still containing a wealth of detail for Chinese scholars, the book brings the fascinating history of Chinese archery back to life through the voices of its most renowned practitioners.
Author: Georgette Chen
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789811449222
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published in conjunction with Georgette Chen: at home in the world, 27 November 2020 - 26 September 2021, an exhibition organised by National Gallery Singapore.
Author: Shabbir Hussain Mustafa
Publisher: National Gallery Singapore
Published: 2019-11-01
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9811406529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1981, the Filipino artist and curator Raymundo Albano adopted the expression “Suddenly Turning Visible” to describe the rapid transformation of Manila’s urban landscape. The visibility that Albano evoked was aspirational, driven by a desire for rapid economic growth in which art had a critical role. This catalogue traces this story through three influential art institutions: the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Alpha Gallery in Singapore and the Bhirasri Institute of Modern Art in Bangkok. It presents in rich detail artworks from the period, an anthology of primary documents and interviews with curators, artists and architects, revealing the links between architecture, modern art and the role of institutions in Southeast Asia.
Author: Christine Moll-Murata
Publisher: Social Histories of Work in As
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789462986657
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialisation in China from 1644 to 1911. It thoroughly examines the interior organisation of public craft production and the complementary activities of the private sector. It offers detailed knowledge of shipbuilding and printing. Moreover, it contributes to the research of labour history and the rise of capitalism in China through its examination of living conditions, working conditions, and wages.
Author: Lisa Odham Stokes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-01-15
Total Pages: 654
ISBN-13: 1538120623
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hong Kong cinema began attracting international attention in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, Hong Kong had become "Hollywood East" as its film industry rose to first in the world in per capita production, was ranked second to the United States in the number of films it exported, and stood third in the world in the number of films produced per year behind the United States and India. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, films, film companies, genres, and terminology. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Hong Kong cinema.
