A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth(1988)

Name: A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth
Director: Philip Haas
Released: 1988-03-18
Rating: 8
Cast: David Hockney

03/18/1988 (US)Documentary0h 46m

8.0

Overview

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.

Philip Haas

Director

David Hockney

Writer