A Companion to Chinese Art
A Companion to Chinese Art
Editors: Powers, Martin J. and Tsiang, Katherine R.
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Wiley
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$195.00

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$292.50
ISBN: 978-1-44-433913-0
Category: Arts & Leisure - Art & Art History
Image Count:
88
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Exploring the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day, this comprehensive volume includes newly-commissioned essays spanning the theories, genres, and media central to Chinese art and theory throughout its history.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Historiographic Perspective
- Overview of the Chapters
- Part I Production and Distribution
- 1 Court Painting
- The Artistic Success of Song Court Painting
- The Political Context of Court Paintings
- Remaining Issues
- Further Exploration
- Chinese Terms
- 2 The Culture of Art Collecting in Imperial China
- Introduction
- The Formation and Geographical Distribution of Private Art Collections
- Demography
- The Issue of Ya versus Su
- Connoisseurship and Connoisseurs
- Art Collection Catalogs
- Art Market, Art Dealers, Art Prices, Forgeries, and Related Phenomena
- Conclusion
- Chinese Terms
- 3 Art, Print, and Cultural Discourse in Early Modern China
- Invention and Innovation
- Books and Social Climbing
- Painting Albums and Manuals
- The Cultural Matrix of Early Modern China
- Chinese Terms
- 4 Art and Early Chinese Archaeological Materials
- Highlights of the Development of Early Tombs and Associated Studies
- Archaeological and Theoretical Readings
- Chinese Terms
- Part II Representation and Reality
- 5 Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror
- Lessons from the Admonitions
- Scoping the Genre
- The Body
- Why Ink Outline?
- Conclusion: Reflections on the Narratives of Figure Painting
- Chinese Terms
- 6 The Language of Portraiture in China
- Introduction
- Historical Development and the Emergence of Types
- Critical Issues in the Art of Chinese Portraiture
- Terminology and Typology
- Acknowledgments
- Chinese Terms
- 7 Visualizing the Divine in Medieval China
- Introduction
- Figures of Divine Presence
- Sacred Spaces and Divine Cosmologies
- Landscape as Sacred Geography
- Conclusion
- Chinese Terms
- 8 Landscape
- Bibliographical Note
- Chinese Terms
- 9 Concepts of Architectural Space in Historical Chinese Thought
- Chinese Terms
- 10 Time in Early Chinese Art
- Why Time in Chinese Art?
- Mechanism of Cyclical Time
- Art as Manipulation of Time
- Time and Alchemy
- Reconciling Cyclicality and Linearity
- Chinese Terms
- Part III Theories and Terms
- 11 The Art of “Ritual Artifacts” (Liqi): Discourse and Practice
- Eastern Zhou Discourse on Liqi
- The Age of Liqi
- The Legacy of Ritual Artifacts
- Chinese Terms
- 12 Classification, Canon, and Genre
- Introduction
- Key Terms
- Canons and Canonicity
- Genre, Theory, and History
- Chinese Terms
- 13 Conceptual and Qualitative Terms in Historical Perspective
- Gu Kaizhi on Xing and Shen
- Shen Applied to Landscape Painting
- Key Terms in Xie He's Six Laws
- Five Dynasties and Song Period Developments
- Zhen and Yi
- Concepts in “Literati Painting”
- “Poetic Mood” in Painting
- Chinese Terms
- 14 Imitation and Originality, Theory and Practice
- Introduction
- The Canonization of Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Poems from the Orchid Pavilion Literary Gathering
- Fang Imitation and Dong Qichang's Southern School of Painting
- Chinese Terms
- 15 Calligraphy
- Institutional Foundations of Chinese Calligraphy
- Social Functions and the Material Dimension of Calligraphy
- Canons and Daily Practice (Rike)
- Text, Script Type, and Personal Style
- Chinese Terms
- 16 Emptiness-Substance: Xushi
- Xu and Shi in the Art of the Chinese Literary Garden
- Xu and Shi in Seal Engraving
- Xu and Shi in Chinese Calligraphy and Literati Painting
- Chinese Terms
- Part IV Objects and Persons
- 17 Artistic Status and Social Agency
- The Zhou Dynasty and Warring States Period (Eleventh through Third Centuries bce)
- The Han Dynasty
- Medieval Period (Third through Tenth Centuries ce)
- Early Modern Period: Song Dynasty (960–1278)
- Concluding Thoughts on the Late, Early Modern Period (Fourteenth through Eighteenth Centuries)
- Conclusion
- Chinese Terms
- 18 Ornament in China
- Definitions and Traits
- Early China, ca. 5000–221 bce
- The Early Empires and Their Successors (221 bce–906 ce)
- From Song to Qing
- Chinese Terms
- 19 Folding Fans and Early Modern Mirrors
- Origins and Originality: Ancient Mirrors
- Origins and Originality: Ancient Fans
- Early Modern Things: Mirrors
- Early Modern Things: Folding Fans
- Material Change and the Social Death of Things
- Chinese Terms
- 20 Garden Art
- The Rise of Garden Form: Bronze Age to Han
- The Formation of a Genre: Six Dynasties Period to Tang
- The Development of Landscape Gardening: Song to Ming
- The Turn to a Pictorial Esthetic: Ming to Qing
- Gardens as Lyrical Enclaves
- Chinese Gardens in the Context of a World History of Gardens
- Chinese Terms
- 21 Commercial Advertising Art in 1840–1940s “China”
- Commercial Cartoon Genre and the Cliché Mise-en-Scène of the Gazing Girl
- Badiou and Inaesthetics
- What is the Historicity of Commercial Advertising Art?
- Advertising and Art Photography
- Conclusion
- Chinese Terms
- Part V Word and Image
- 22 Words in Chinese Painting
- Beginnings: Identifying, Labeling, Naming
- Calligraphy and Poetry as Key Factors in the Word–Image Relationship
- The Northern Song (960–1127) Integration of Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting
- Painting Became a Vehicle for Expressions of Discontent
- Southern Song (1127–1272)
- Seal Legends
- Comparisons with Western Europe
- The Mongol Yuan Dynasty (1272–1368)
- Ming Dynasty: The Literati Esthetic Becomes Dominant
- The Manchu Qing Dynasty (1644–1911)
- Silent Poetry and Vernacular Painting
- Conclusion
- Chinese Terms
- 23 On the Origins of Literati Painting in the Song Dynasty
- Paintings by Literati and “Literati Painting”
- If Not Khubilai, Then What, When, Why?
- “Literati Painting”: How to Think about What We Do and Do Not Know
- Chinese Terms
- 24 Poetry and Pictorial Expression in Chinese Painting
- Gu Kaizhi (ca. 345–ca. 406)
- Guo Xi (after 1000–ca. 1090) and Huayi (The Meaning of Painting)
- Xieyi and Shiyi
- The Shiyi of Sima Huai and Mi Youren
- Conclusion
- Chinese Terms
- 25 Popular Literature and Visual Culture in Early Modern China
- Peeping in the Classical Period
- The Topos of Peeping in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
- Framed Peeping and Garden Aesthetics
- Epilogue
- Chinese Terms