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In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products
and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the
collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to
a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears;
its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social
activities and cultural conventions neglected.
A screen occupies a space and divides it, supplies an ideal surface for
painting, and has been a favorite pictorial image in Chinese art since
antiquity. Wu Hung undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the screen,
which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all three
at once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinese
painters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art.
The Double Screen provides a powerful non-Western perspective on
issues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism,
masquerade, and political rhetoric. It will be invaluable to anyone
interested in the history of art and Asian studies.
and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the
collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to
a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears;
its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social
activities and cultural conventions neglected.
A screen occupies a space and divides it, supplies an ideal surface for
painting, and has been a favorite pictorial image in Chinese art since
antiquity. Wu Hung undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the screen,
which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all three
at once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinese
painters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art.
The Double Screen provides a powerful non-Western perspective on
issues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism,
masquerade, and political rhetoric. It will be invaluable to anyone
interested in the history of art and Asian studies.
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A passage from the Xuanhe huapu, the painting collection catalogue of the Song dynasty Emperor Huizong (r. 1101-26), recounts the creation of Gu Hongzhong's tenth-century masterpiece, the Night Entertainment of Han Xizai (illus. 13): Gu Hongzhong was from south China and served the Southern Tang emperor Li Yu [r. 961-75] as a court painter. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
short handscroll, handscroll format, tripartite screen, landscape screen, handscroll painting, bowuyuan yuankan, textual enclosures, courtesan culture, literati art, plain screen, funerary couch, tushu jicheng, twelve beauties, meishu chubanshe, pure screen, album leaf, hanging scroll, screen painting, costume portraits, pictorial context, painting catalogue, exemplary women, pictorial illusion, pictorial motif, feminine space Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Han Xizai, Palace Museum, Zhou Wenju, Southern Tang, Tang Yin, Southern Song, Yuanming Garden, Court Concert, Wen Zhengming, Collating Texts, Northern Wei, Wang Qihan, Forbidden City, Wang Meng, Classic of Filial Piety, Liu Xiang, Reading Hall, Spring's Peaceful Message, Liu Songnian, Wang Shen, Zhu Wei, Liu Guandao, Qiu Ying, Emperor Huizong, Han Xizaí New!
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A passage from the Xuanhe huapu, the painting collection catalogue of the Song dynasty Emperor Huizong (r. 1101-26), recounts the creation of Gu Hongzhong's tenth-century masterpiece, the Night Entertainment of Han Xizai (illus. 13): Gu Hongzhong was from south China and served the Southern Tang emperor Li Yu [r. 961-75] as a court painter. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
short handscroll, handscroll format, tripartite screen, landscape screen, handscroll painting, bowuyuan yuankan, textual enclosures, courtesan culture, literati art, plain screen, funerary couch, tushu jicheng, twelve beauties, meishu chubanshe, pure screen, album leaf, hanging scroll, screen painting, costume portraits, pictorial context, painting catalogue, exemplary women, pictorial illusion, pictorial motif, feminine space Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Han Xizai, Palace Museum, Zhou Wenju, Southern Tang, Tang Yin, Southern Song, Yuanming Garden, Court Concert, Wen Zhengming, Collating Texts, Northern Wei, Wang Qihan, Forbidden City, Wang Meng, Classic of Filial Piety, Liu Xiang, Reading Hall, Spring's Peaceful Message, Liu Songnian, Wang Shen, Zhu Wei, Liu Guandao, Qiu Ying, Emperor Huizong, Han Xizaí New!
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- Chinese Painting by James Cahill on 8 pages
- Chinese Pictorial Art by Robert Hans Van Gulik on 4 pages
- The Story of the Western Wing by Shi-fu Wang in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Art and Political Expression in Early China by Mr. Martin J. Powers in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Chinese figure painting, (Its fiftieth anniversary exhibition) by Freer Gallery of Art in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade by Robert S. Nelson in Back Matter
- Cosmopolitanism (a Public Culture Book) by Carol A.Breckenridge in Back Matter
- Theaters of Desire: Authors, Readers, and the Reproduction of Early Chinese Song-Drama, 1300-2000 by Patricia Sieber in Back Matter
- Public Culture: Globalization by Arjun Appadurai on page 92
- Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries by David Carrier in Back Matter
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