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

  • NR
  • 03/18/1988 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 46m

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

Cast

David Hockney's headshot

David Hockney

Self

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