Editors:
Martin J. Powers & Katherine R. Tsiang
Publisher:
Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Year:
2015
Abstract:
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.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures xi
Notes on Contributors xv
Introduction 1
Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. Tsiang
Part I Production and Distribution 27
1 Court Painting 29
Patricia Ebrey
2 The Culture of Art Collecting in Imperial China 47
Scarlett Jang
3 Art, Print, and Cultural Discourse in Early Modern China 73
J. P. Park
4 Art and Early Chinese Archaeological Materials 91
Xiaoneng Yang
Part II Representation and Reality 113
5 Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror 115
Shane McCausland
6 The Language of Portraiture in China 136
Dora C. Y. Ching
7 Visualizing the Divine in Medieval China 158
Katherine R. Tsiang
8 Landscape 177
Peter C. Sturman
9 Concepts of Architectural Space in Historical Chinese Thought 195
Cary Y. Liu
10 Time in Early Chinese Art 212
Eugene Y. Wang
Part III Theories and Terms 233
11 The Art of “Ritual Artifacts” (Liqi 禮器): Discourse and Practice 235
Wu Hung
12 Classification, Canon, and Genre 254
Richard Vinograd
13 Conceptual and Qualitative Terms in Historical Perspective 277
Ronald Egan
14 Imitation and Originality, Theory and Practice 293
Ginger Cheng-chi Hs¨u
15 Calligraphy 312
Qianshen Bai
16 Emptiness-Substance: Xushi 329
Jason C. Kuo
Part IV Objects and Persons 349
17 Artistic Status and Social Agency 351
Martin J. Powers
18 Ornament in China 371
Jessica Rawson
19 Folding Fans and Early Modern Mirrors 392
Antonia Finnane
20 Garden Art 410
Xin Wu
21 Commercial Advertising Art in 1840–1940s “China” 431
Tani E. Barlow
Part V Word and Image 455
22 Words in Chinese Painting 457
Alfreda Murck
23 On the Origins of Literati Painting in the Song Dynasty 474
Jerome Silbergeld
24 Poetry and Pictorial Expression in Chinese Painting 499
Susan Bush
25 Popular Literature and Visual Culture in Early Modern China 517
Jianhua Chen
Index 535
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