A Companion to Chinese Art (Blackwell Companions to Art History)

Description: Martin J. Powers is Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, USA, and former director of the Center for Chinese Studies. His publications Art and Political Expression in Early China (1991) and Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China (2006) have both received the Levenson Prize for the best books in pre-twentieth century Chinese Studies. Katherine R. Tsiang is Associate Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia in the Department of Art History, University of Chicago, USA, where she coordinates research materials and programs. Her research is concentrated in the fields of Chinese Buddhist art and Chinese medieval art and visual culture. Her work includes using new technology for digital imaging and reconstruction of Chinese Buddhist caves and she is curator and author of the catalog of the exhibition "Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan" (2010). List of Figures xi Notes on Contributors xv Introduction 1 Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. Tsiang Part I Production and Distribution 27 1 Court Painting 29 Patricia Ebrey 2 The Culture of Art Collecting in Imperial China 47 Scarlett Jang 3 Art, Print, and Cultural Discourse in Early Modern China 73 J. P. Park 4 Art and Early Chinese Archaeological Materials 91 Xiaoneng Yang Part II Representation and Reality 113 5 Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror 115 Shane McCausland 6 The Language of Portraiture in China 136 Dora C. Y. Ching 7 Visualizing the Divine in Medieval China 158 Katherine R. Tsiang 8 Landscape 177 Peter C. Sturman 9 Concepts of Architectural Space in Historical Chinese Thought 195 Cary Y. Liu 10 Time in Early Chinese Art 212 Eugene Y. Wang Part III Theories and Terms 233 11 The Art of "Ritual Artifacts" (Liqi): Discourse and Practice 235 Wu Hung 12 Classification, Canon, and Genre 254 Richard Vinograd 13 Conceptual and Qualitative Terms in Historical Perspective 277 Ronald Egan 14 Imitation and Originality, Theory and Practice 293 Ginger Cheng-chi Hs¿u 15 Calligraphy 312 Qianshen Bai 16 Emptiness-Substance: Xushi 329 Jason C. Kuo Part IV Objects and Persons 349 17 Artistic Status and Social Agency 351 Martin J. Powers 18 Ornament in China 371 Jessica Rawson 19 Folding Fans and Early Modern Mirrors 392 Antonia Finnane 20 Garden Art 410 Xin Wu 21 Commercial Advertising Art in 1840-1940s "China" 431 Tani E. Barlow Part V Word and Image 455 22 Words in Chinese Painting 457 Alfreda Murck 23 On the Origins of Literati Painting in the Song Dynasty 474 Jerome Silbergeld 24 Poetry and Pictorial Expression in Chinese Painting 499 Susan Bush 25 Popular Literature and Visual Culture in Early Modern China 517 Jianhua Chen Index 535

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