Publisher's Synopsis
"Richly illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs of historical figures, texts, famous sites and masterworks, this volume examines photography's profound impact on East Asian art and visual culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Inspired by the "Photography and the Art of East Asia" symposium held at the University of Chicago in May 2015, co-editors Wu Hung and Chelsea Foxwell have compiled these scholarly studies into a new book that deepens understanding of this important field of study. The essays reexamine existing ideas about photography's relationship with art history and provide fresh perspectives and newly discovered information"--.
