{"product_id":"china-jos-gelabert-navia-clamshell-box-9781946226563","title":"China: José Gelabert-Navia - Clamshell Box","description":"- 20 original drawings - The beauty of regional China captured with exquisite mastery - Exhibition quality production - An homage to one of the world's richest artistic traditions - A remarkable artistic feat by a leading architect Between 1915 and 1917 the Russian composer, Sergei Prokofiev wrote a series of twenty piano pieces. While playing them for a gathering of friends, the poet Konstantin Balmont wrote a sonnet which entitled Mimolyotnosti which Kira Nikolayevna would translate as Visions fugitives. Inspired by these dazzling miniatures, I have assembled a jewel box containing twenty individual felt-tip drawings on watercolor paper capturing fugitive visions of China. For a country that has of late been focused on the future, I have been fascinated by the search for a true contemporary regional language in traditional Chinese architecture and painting. The intricate and careful composition in relation to landscape and light has been a continual revelation, as evidenced by the Summer Palace on the outskirts of Beijing and vanishing water towns such as Zhujiajiao, known as the \"Venice of Shanghai.\" \"In every fugitive vision I see worlds filled with the changing play of rainbows.\" Konstantin Balmont\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946226563\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.20lbs","brand":"Jos\u0026#233; Gelabert-Navia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574282690741,"sku":"9781946226563","price":80.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_05d2dc44-f442-4b81-becb-ba28bedbfb47.jpg?v=1643692087","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/china-jos-gelabert-navia-clamshell-box-9781946226563","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}