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.
Title | A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth |
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Year | 1988 |
Genre | Documentary |
Country | United States of America |
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Cast | David Hockney |
Crew | Philip Haas (Producer), Philip Haas (Director), Marc Wilkinson (Music), Susumu Tokunow (Sound Editor), Curtiss Clayton (Editor), David Hockney (Writer) |
Keyword | china, theory, art, criticism, perspective |
Release | Mar 18, 1988 |
Runtime | 46 minutes |
Quality | HD |
IMDb | 8.00 / 10 by 1 users |