Body And Face In Chinese Visual Culture
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Author | : Hung Wu |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684174031 |
Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve contributors to this volume adopt a middle position. They agree that Chinese images are conditioned by indigenous traditions and dynamics of social interaction, but they seek to explain a general Chinese body and face by charting multiple, specific bodies and faces. All of the chapters are historical case studies and investigate particular images, such as Han dynasty tomb figurines; Buddhist texts and illustrations; pictures of deprivation, illness, deformity, and ghosts; clothing; formal portraiture; and modern photographs and films. From the diversity of art forms and historical periods studied, there emerges a more complex picture of ways that the visual culture of the body and face in China has served to depict the living, memorialize the dead, and present the unrepresentable in art.
Author | : Chi An Kuei |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Facial expression |
ISBN | : 9780285634350 |
Originally published in 1998, an illustrated guide to Siang Mien, the ancient Chinese art of character recognition through a study of facial shape and features.
Author | : Jörg Huber |
Publisher | : Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Arts, Chinese |
ISBN | : 9783837623093 |
This publication enquires into the role and treatment of the body in the visual culture of contemporary China. What meanings are assigned to the body in artistic practice, what does it represent and what (hi)stories does it refer to? Considerable importance is ascribed to the body as a means of orientation and placement; as an arena and medium of social experience. 19 Chinese artists, theatre practitioners and theorists describe their personal experiences, put their thoughts and views up for discussion and explore how art can shed light on the individual and collective experiences that emerge in the wake of historical change and the anticipation of a newly won freedom.
Author | : Joshua Jiehong Jiang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-06-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789004537422 |
The notion of the 'conformed body', defined as a unique experience since the People's Republic of China, has formed a particular energy to inspire, stimulate and influence artists, and is established as a critical perspective to re-examine Chinese contemporary art.
Author | : Laikwan Pang |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2007-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0824864670 |
The Distorting Mirror analyzes the multiple and complex ways in which urban Chinese subjects saw themselves interacting with the new visual culture that emerged during the turbulent period between the 1880s and the 1930s. The media and visual forms examined include lithography, photography, advertising, film, and theatrical performances. Urbanites actively engaged with and enjoyed this visual culture, which was largely driven by the subjective desire for the empty promises of modernity—promises comprised of such abstract and fleeting concepts as new, exciting, and fashionable. Detailing and analyzing the trajectories of development of various visual representations, Laikwan Pang emphasizes their interactions. In doing so, she demonstrates that visual modernity was not only a combination of independent cultural phenomena, but also a partially coherent sociocultural discourse whose influences were seen in different and collective parts of the culture. The work begins with an overall historical account and theorization of a new lithographic pictorial culture developing at the end of the nineteenth century and an examination of modernity’s obsession with the investigation of the real. Subsequent chapters treat the fascination with the image of the female body in the new visual culture; entertainment venues in which this culture unfolded and was performed; how urbanites came to terms with and interacted with the new reality; and the production and reception of images, the dynamics between these two being a theme explored throughout the book. Modernity, as the author shows, can be seen as spectacle. At the same time, she demonstrates that, although the excessiveness of this spectacle captivated the modern subject, it did not completely overwhelm or immobilize those who engaged with it. After all, she argues, they participated in and performed with this ephemeral visual culture in an attempt to come to terms with their own new, modern self.
Author | : Siow Mong Lee (Tan Sri) |
Publisher | : Eureka Publications |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9789679782721 |
Author | : Xing Wang |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2020-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004429557 |
In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang provides an extensive reading of the Ming (1368-1644 C. E.) texts of a well-known body divination technique ‘xiangshu’ (physiognomy), and investigates its unique ‘somatic cosmology’ in Ming religious and intellectual context.
Author | : Zhou Xian |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2023-07-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000916685 |
As the first volume of a two-volume set that examines the interaction between social transformation and visual culture in contemporary China, this book explores the visual construction of popular culture, avant-garde art, and grassroots media culture. Drawing on an approach of Marxist historic materialism and academic resources of sociology, communication, and art, this study of contemporary China’s visual culture emphasizes two inter-related aspects – the visual construction of society and the social construction of the visual. It seeks to unravel how visual culture is produced and constructed, as well as how it reflects the profound social transformation and reshapes people’s understanding and experience of modernization. In this volume, the contributors revisit popular culture, avant-garde art, and grassroots media culture in contemporary China, analyzing the visual image and representation, and visual culture’s role in social construction. In doing so, the book also reveals the cultural tension of contemporary China, in which the visual aspect figures prominently. This book will serve as an essential read for scholars and students of China studies and cultural studies, as well as all levels of readers interested in visual culture in contemporary China.
Author | : Julia K. Murray |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2007-01-31 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 082486364X |
Mirror of Morality takes an interdisciplinary look at an important form of pictorial art produced during two millennia of Chinese imperial rule. Ideas about individual morality and state ideology were based on the ancient teachings of Confucius with modifications by later interpreters and government institutions. Throughout the imperial period, members of the elite made, sponsored, and inscribed or used illustrations of themes taken from history, literature, and recent events to promote desired conduct among various social groups. This dimension of Chinese art history has never before been broadly covered or investigated in historical context. The first half of the study examines the nature of narrative illustration in China and traces the evolution of its functions, conventions, and rhetorical strategies from the second century BCE through the eleventh century. Under the stimulus of Buddhism, sophisticated techniques developed for representing stories in visual form. While tracing changes in the social functions and cultural positions of narrative illustration, the second half of the book argues that narrative illustration continued to play a vital role in elite visual culture.
Author | : Larissa Heinrich |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2008-02-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780822341130 |
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