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• Title:The 8 brokens : Chinese bapo painting / Nancy Berliner.
  
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• Variant Title:Eight brokens : Chinese bapo painting
  
• Related Title:China's 8 brokens, puzzles of the treasured past.
  
• Author/Creator:Berliner, Nancy Zeng, 1958- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, issuing body, host institution.
  
• Published/Created:Boston : MFA Publications, [2018]
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ND1044.5.B37 B47 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Painting, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912--Exhibitions.
  Painting, Chinese--20th century--Exhibitions.
  Painting, Chinese--Exhibitions.
  
• Genre/Form:Exhibition catalogs.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
  
• Summary:Developed during the mid-19th century in China, the bapo (or "eight brokens") painting genre combines ingeniously realistic depictions of antique documents, such as calligraphies, rubbings, paintings and pages from old books, sometimes alongside everyday contemporary ephemera, including advertisements, receipts and postmarked envelopes. The resulting, seemingly haphazard, overlapping compositions contain coded reflections on the decay of cultural traditions, or wishes for the recipient's good fortune. Widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, bapo was never popular with the upper echelons of the Chinese art world, and as a result was never recorded in art-history texts or mentioned by cultural critics. It became a lost branch of Chinese art, almost completely forgotten for the past 60 years.0This book explores the origins of bapo in Chinese visual culture and traces how it blossomed into an intriguing and inventive tradition in the hands of many artists.
  
• Notes:Published in conjunction with the exhibition China's 8 Brokens: Puzzles of the Treasured Past, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from June 17 to October 29, 2017.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780878468317 hardcover
  0878468315 hardcover