The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting - Brossura

Hung, Wu

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ISBN 10: 0226360741 ISBN 13: 9780226360744

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1997

Riassunto

In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products
and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the
collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to
a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears;
its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social
activities and cultural conventions neglected.

A screen occupies a space and divides it, supplies an ideal surface for
painting, and has been a favorite pictorial image in Chinese art since
antiquity. Wu Hung undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the screen,
which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all three
at once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinese
painters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art.

The Double Screen provides a powerful non-Western perspective on
issues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism,
masquerade, and political rhetoric. It will be invaluable to anyone
interested in the history of art and Asian studies.

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• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0226360741
• ISBN 13: 9780226360744
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 256