Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Eight studies examine key features of Chinese visual and material cultures, ranging from tomb design, metalware, ceramic pillows, and bronze mirrors, to printed illustrations, calligraphic rubbings, colophons, and paintings on Buddhist, landscape, and narrative themes. Questions addressed include how artists and artisans made their works, the ways both popular literature and market forces could shape ways of looking, and how practices and imagery spread across regions. The authors connect visual materials to funeral and religious practices, drama, poetry, literati life, travel, and trade, showing ways visual images and practices reflected, adapted to, and reproduced the culture and society around them. Readers will gain a stronger appreciation of the richness of the visual and material cultures of Middle Period China.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-08-16
Mått:155 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt:640 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Sinica Leidensia
Antal sidor:334
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004348981

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Konstböcker inom Kultur
Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Patricia Buckley Ebrey is Professor of History at the University of Washington. A specialist in Song history, her forays into Song visual and material culture include Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong (2008) and Emperor Huizong (2014). Shih-shan Susan Huang is Associate Professor Art History at Rice University (PhD., Yale University). An art historian specializing in Daoist and Buddhist visual cultures, she is the author of Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China (2012).

Recensioner i media

"Most contributions are of striking vivacity and originality and accompanied by splendid illustrations."Barbara Hendrischke, University of Sydney, Religious Studies Review 45 (2019) 'this volume is a timely addition to the existing scholarship about visual and material cultures of China from 800 to 1400, extending our understanding of the cultural and economic dynamism during the period. Full with intriguing observations and thought-provoking syntheses, it is bound to an indispensable book which will definitely inspire future researchers on the perennial topic in Chinese and Asian history. - Hang Lin, Hangzhou Normal University, China, The Newsletter 86 (2020).

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments viiList of Illustrations viiiList of Contributors xivIntroduction Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Shih-shan Susan HuangPart 1: Making Art in Funeral and Ritual Contexts1 Modular Design of Tombs in Song and Jin North China - Fei Deng2 Visualizing Ritual in Southern Song Buddhist Painting - Phillip E. BloomPart 2: Setting a Scene3 Dreams, Spirits, and Romantic Encounters in Jin and Yuan Theatrical Pictures - Fan Jeremy Zhang4 The Ten Views of West Lake - Xiaolin DuanPart 3: Appreciating the Written Word5 A Forgery and the Pursuit of the Authentic Wang Xizhi - Hui-Wen Lu6 Zhu Xi’s Colophons on Handwritten Documents - Patricia Buckley EbreyPart 4: Cross-Cultural Transfers7 Paintings of Birds by Basins - Jie Liu8 Chinese Objects Recovered from Sutra Mounds in Japan, 1000-1300 - Yiwen LiIndex 319