Description:
Explores the transformative shift in nineteenth-century Chinese art, where artists used touch to establish a genuine connection with the past, challenge stagnant artistic norms, and foster deeper human connections.
Brief description: Michael J. Hatch is Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College.
Review Quotes:
"Lucidly written and ambitiously conceived, Networks of Touch is the first English monograph that provides a systematic and critical treatment of many major yet understudied artists in nineteenth-century China. Hatch successfully brings life to the lived experience of individual figures and the embodied experience of their artworks."
--Weitian Yan 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual