Social Lives of Chinese Objects

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Del 2 i serien European Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology

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Beskrivning

The Social Lives of Chinese Objects is the first anthology of texts to apply Arjun Appadurai’s well-known argument on the social life of things to the discussion of artefacts made in China. The essays in this book look at objects as “things-in-motion,” a status that brings attention to the history of transmissions ensuing after the time and conditions of their production. How does the identity of an object change as a consequence of geographical relocation and/ or temporal transference? How do the intentions of the individuals responsible for such transfers affect the later status and meaning of these objects? The materiality of the things analyzed in this book, and visualized by a rich array of illustrations, varies from bronze to lacquered wood, from clay to porcelain, and includes painting, imperial clothing, and war spoils. Metamorphoses of value, status, and function as well as the connections with the individuals who managed them, such as collectors, museum curators, worshipers, and soldiers are also considered as central to the discussion of their life. Presenting a broader and more contextual reading than that traditionally adopted by art-historical scholarship, the essays in this book take on a multidisciplinary approach that helps to expose crucial elements in the life of these Chinese things and brings to light the cumulative motives making them relevant and meaningful to our present time.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-27
Mått:155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:601 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:European Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology
Antal sidor:332
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004521339

Utforska kategorier

Konstteori inom Kultur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Alice Bianchi, Ph.D. (2014), Inalco, is Associate Professor of Chinese Art History at the Université Paris Cité. She has published several articles on Chinese art, including “Picturing Disaster in Late Imperial China: The Liumin tu Tradition and Its Transformations” (Journal of Oriental Studies, 2021)Lyce Jankowski, Ph.D. (2012), Paris-Sorbonne University, is Curator of Extra-European art at the Royal Museum of Mariemont. She authored Les Amis des monnaies – La sociabilité savante des collectionneurs et numismates chinois de la fin des Qing, (2018).

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsList of Figures, Chart and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAlice Bianchi and Lyce JankowskiPart 1: Reconsidering Object Categories1 The Afterlife of Mingqi: Relational Meaning in Underground TombsBonnie Cheng2 From Ritual to Colonial Fantasies. Chinese Ritual Objects as Part of Western Collections of Asian Art in the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyMichaela Pejcochova3 Contemporary Art and Colonial Collecting: Huang Yong Ping’s Reinstallation of J.J.M. de Groot’s Panthéon Chinois from the Lyon Musée des ConfluencesFrancesca Dal LagoPart 2: Questioning the Narratives of Objects Biographies4 Materiality as Objecthood in a Buddhist Clay Tablet: From Calligraphic Style to an Imaginary Encounter with DunhuangFoong Ping5 Chinese Zodiac: The Social Life of the Yuanming Yuan’s Circle of Animals Fountain HeadsInes Eben von RacknitzPart 3: Opening New Perspectives6 Reevaluating Chinese Landscape Iconography: Painting and Poetry of Meditation during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesCédric Laurent7 A World Dotted with Kingfisher Blue: Feather Tributes and the Qing CourtWang Lianming8 Portraits on China: Porcelain Portraits and Photoceramics from China in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesLee Wing KiBibliographyIndex