Ansai Folk Paper-Cutting Masterpieces

Author: Anshui County Cultural Relics and Museum
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Publish Date: 1999-07-01
Features: This book introduces the folk art of paper-cutting in Anshui County, Shaanxi. As an art form with a rich historical heritage, the book reveals the sociological, aesthetic, and anthropological connotations of paper-cutting as an ancient art through an introduction to the history of paper-cutting, explanations of its various types, and interpretations of the cultural symbolic meanings expressed by each type.