Movies like 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
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1988-03-18
Duration: 46 Min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: David Hockney

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

United States46Min

7.3 ( 63 Votes )

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.