A Companion to Chinese Art

583 Pages·2016·21.98 MB·english

by  Martin J. Powers

W I L E Y B L A C K W E L L C O M P A N I O N S T O A R T H I S T O R Y
A Companion to
Chinese Art
Edited by Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. Tsiang

A Companion to
Chinese Art
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Contents
ListofFigures xi
NotesonContributors xv
Introduction 1
MartinJ.PowersandKatherineR.Tsiang
PartI ProductionandDistribution 27
1 CourtPainting 29
PatriciaEbrey
2 TheCultureofArtCollectinginImperialChina 47
ScarlettJang
3 Art,Print,andCulturalDiscourseinEarlyModernChina 73
J.P.Park
4 ArtandEarlyChineseArchaeologicalMaterials 91
XiaonengYang
PartII RepresentationandReality 113
5 FigurePainting:FragmentsofthePreciousMirror 115
ShaneMcCausland
6 TheLanguageofPortraitureinChina 136
DoraC.Y.Ching
7 VisualizingtheDivineinMedievalChina 158
KatherineR.Tsiang
viii (cid:2)(cid:2)(cid:2) CONTENTS
8 Landscape 177
PeterC.Sturman
9 ConceptsofArchitecturalSpaceinHistoricalChineseThought 195
CaryY.Liu
10 TimeinEarlyChineseArt 212
EugeneY.Wang
PartIII TheoriesandTerms 233
11 TheArtof“RitualArtifacts”(Liqi):DiscourseandPractice 235
WuHung
12 Classification,Canon,andGenre 254
RichardVinograd
13 ConceptualandQualitativeTermsinHistoricalPerspective 277
RonaldEgan
14 ImitationandOriginality,TheoryandPractice 293
GingerCheng-chiHsu¨
15 Calligraphy 312
QianshenBai
16 Emptiness-Substance:Xushi 329
JasonC.Kuo
PartIV ObjectsandPersons 349
17 ArtisticStatusandSocialAgency 351
MartinJ.Powers
18 OrnamentinChina 371
JessicaRawson
19 FoldingFansandEarlyModernMirrors 392
AntoniaFinnane
20 GardenArt 410
XinWu
21 CommercialAdvertisingArtin1840–1940s“China” 431
TaniE.Barlow
PartV WordandImage 455
22 WordsinChinesePainting 457
AlfredaMurck