A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth

A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth

 

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0h 46m 1988 HD

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through China via a marvelous 72-foot long 17th-century Chinese scroll entitled The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (1691-1698), scroll seven . As Hockney unrolls the beautiful and minutely detailed work of art, he traces the Emperor Kangxi’s second tour of his southern empire in 1689.


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