Outreach
Video Lending Library
China
- Program Title: A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China
- EASC Code: CD-05
- Series Title:
- Region/Country: China
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English
- Subject: Arts & Music
- Program Type: Documentary
- Media Type: VHS
- Director: Philip Haas
- Producer: Milestones Film & Video
- Release Date: 1991
- Running Time: 47 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: World-famous artist David Hockney invites the viewer to join him on a magical journey down a 72-foot long lengdary 17th-century Chinese scroll. As he unrolls the richly detailed painting, Hockney traces the Emperor Kangxi's grand tour of his southern domain.
Comparing the work with a Canaletto painting and a later Chinese scroll, Hockney spins a dazzling discourse on eastern and western perspective and thei relationship to his own artistic vision. - Data Entry Date: 2/12/2004
