TY - BOOK ID - 78628129 TI - Dimensions of originality PY - 2013 SN - 9629969149 9789629969141 9629964562 9789629964566 PB - Hong Kong The Chinese University Press DB - UniCat KW - Art, Chinese KW - Art criticism KW - Art KW - Arts KW - Criticism KW - History KW - Analysis, interpretation, appreciation KW - S17/0623 KW - S17/0624 KW - China: Art and archaeology--Calligraphy and painting: esthetical aspects (texts and translations) KW - China: Art and archaeology--Painting: Ming KW - China: Art and archaeology--Painting: Qing KW - S17/0602 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78628129 AB - Dimensions of Originality investigates the issue of conceptual originality in seventeenth-century art criticism, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. The term which was called upon to indicate conceptual originality more than any other was qi, literally, "different"; but secondarily, "odd," like a number and, by extension, "the novel" and "extraordinary." Burnett speculates on why many have dismissed originality as a "traditional Chinese" value, and the ramifications this has had on understanding. She further demonstrates that a study of key terms can reveal social and cultural values, and provides a linear history of the increase in use of qi as "originality" through the seventeenth centuries. ER -