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Reinventing the past: archaism and antiquarianism in Chinese art and visual culture

Reinventing the past: archaism and antiquarianism in Chinese art and visual culture
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ISBN 9781588861092 (hbk.)
1588861092 (hbk.)
Title Reinventing the past : archaism and antiquarianism in Chinese art and visual culture / edited by Wu Hung
Publisher Chicago : Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago ; Art Media Resources, 2010
Physical desc. 384 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 27 cm.
Series University of Chicago. Center for the Art of East Asia symposia
Note Essays based on the results of two conferences at the University of Chicago in May and November 2006.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction. Patterns of returning to the ancients in Chinese art and visual culture / Wu Hung -- Pt. 1: Archaism, antiquarianism, and Chinese art history. Reviving ancient ornament and the presence of the past: examples from Shang and Zhou bronze vessels / Jessica Rawson -- Antiquarianism in eastern Zhou bronzes and its significance / Lothar von Falkenhausen -- Imitation and reference in China's pictorial tradition / Martin J. Powers -- Pt. 2: Recontextualizing the past. Antiquarianism and re-envisioning empire in the late northern Wei / Katherine R. Tsiang -- Reinventing the past, inventing a dynasty: inspiration of monuments of the past and Tang dynastic topography / Tonia Eckfeld -- Replicating Zhou bells at the northern Song court / Patricia Ebrey -- Pt. 3: Technologies of antiquarianism. Cataloguing antiquity: a comparative study of the Kaogu tu and Bogu tu / Yun-Chiahn C. Sena -- Antiquarian politics and the politics of antiquarianism in Ming regional courts / Craig Clunas -- Between printing and rubbing: Chu Jun's illustrated catalogues of ancient monuments in eighteenth-century China / Lillian Lan-Ying Tseng -- Pt. 4: Modernizing the past. Composite rubbings in nineteenth-century China: the case of Wu Dacheng (1835-1902) and his friends / Qianshen Bai -- The Qing imperial collection, circa 1905-25: national humiliation, heritage preservation, and exhibition culture / Cheng-hua Wang -- Antiquarianism or primitivism? the edge of history in the modern Chinese imagination / Sarah E. Fraser.
Subject Art, Chinese -- Themes, motives
Art and history -- China
Historicism in art
Added name(s) Wu Hung 1945-
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