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Exploring the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day, this comprehensive volume includes two dozen newly-commissioned essays spanning the theories, genres, and media central to Chinese art and theory throughout its history.
Martin J. Powers is Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, USA, and former director of the Center for Chinese Studies. His publications Art and Political Expression in Early China (1991) and Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China (2006) have both received the Levenson Prize for the best books in pre-twentieth century Chinese Studies. Katherine R. Tsiang is Associate Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia in the Department of Art History, University of Chicago, USA, where she coordinates research materials and programs. Her research is concentrated in the fields of Chinese Buddhist art and Chinese medieval art and visual culture. Her work includes using new technology for digital imaging and reconstruction of Chinese Buddhist caves and she is curator and author of the catalog of the exhibition "Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan" (2010).
Notes on Contributors xv
Introduction 1Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. Tsiang
Part I Production and Distribution 27
1 Court Painting 29Patricia Ebrey
2 The Culture of Art Collecting in Imperial China 47Scarlett Jang
3 Art, Print, and Cultural Discourse in Early Modern China 73J. P. Park
4 Art and Early Chinese Archaeological Materials 91Xiaoneng Yang
Part II Representation and Reality 113
5 Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror 115Shane McCausland
6 The Language of Portraiture in China 136Dora C. Y. Ching
7 Visualizing the Divine in Medieval China 158Katherine R. Tsiang
8 Landscape 177Peter C. Sturman
9 Concepts of Architectural Space in Historical Chinese Thought 195Cary Y. Liu
10 Time in Early Chinese Art 212Eugene Y. Wang
Part III Theories and Terms 233
11 The Art of “Ritual Artifacts” (Liqi): Discourse and Practice 235Wu Hung
12 Classification, Canon, and Genre 254Richard Vinograd
13 Conceptual and Qualitative Terms in Historical Perspective 277Ronald Egan
14 Imitation and Originality, Theory and Practice 293Ginger Cheng-chi Hs¨u
15 Calligraphy 312Qianshen Bai
16 Emptiness-Substance: Xushi 329Jason C. Kuo
Part IV Objects and Persons 349
17 Artistic Status and Social Agency 351Martin J. Powers
18 Ornament in China 371Jessica Rawson
19 Folding Fans and Early Modern Mirrors 392Antonia Finnane
20 Garden Art 410Xin Wu
21 Commercial Advertising Art in 1840–1940s “China” 431Tani E. Barlow
Part V Word and Image 455
22 Words in Chinese Painting 457Alfreda Murck
23 On the Origins of Literati Painting in the Song Dynasty 474Jerome Silbergeld
24 Poetry and Pictorial Expression in Chinese Painting 499Susan Bush
25 Popular Literature and Visual Culture in Early Modern China 517Jianhua Chen
Index 535
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