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Rethinking visual narratives from Asia: intercultural and comparative perspectives

Rethinking visual narratives from Asia: intercultural and comparative perspectives
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ISBN 988813910X (pbk.)
9789888139101 (pbk.)
Title Rethinking visual narratives from Asia : intercultural and comparative perspectives / edited by Alexandra Green
Publisher Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2013
Physical desc. ix, 258 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Note Papers from a conference hosted by the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong, 8-9 June 2009.
CBL illustrations: p. 42-43, fig. 2.1 (J 1158, scroll 2, act 3).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: expansive approaches to visual narrative analysis / Alexandra Green -- Keynote address: Narrative and visual narrative across disciplines and cultures / Julia K. Murray -- Vignettism in the poetics of Chinese narrative painting / Dore J. Levy -- Visual narratology in China and Japan around 1600: a comparative study / Shane McCausland -- The art of tales: Qing novels and paintings by Su Renshan (1814-c. 1850) / Yeewan Koon -- Reading the world's landscape in Zhang Bao's Images of the floating raft, 1833 / Catherine Stuer -- Translating text into image: Beyan-i menazil, an illustrated Ottoman manuscript / Yonca Kösebay Erkan -- Poetry, incense, card games, and pictorial narrative coding in early modern Genji pictures / Sarah E. Thompson -- Storytelling in real space: viewership and nirvana narratives in cave temples of China / Sonya S. Lee -- Narrative place and network thinking: the Ramayana and Kresnayana in early Java / Mary-Louise Totton -- Buddhist narrative imagery during the eleventh century at Pagan, Burma: reviewing origins and purpose / Charlotte Galloway -- Creating sacred space: Thai and Burmese wall paintings of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries / Alexandra Green -- The performance of visual narratives in imperial art: two case studies from Assyria and the Khmer state / Dominik Bonatz -- The 'performance' of visual narrative in courtly Kerala: the Ramayana murals of Mattanceri Palace / Mary Beth Heston -- Constructing multiple narratives in Theravada Buddhism: the Vessantara painted scrolls of northeast Thailand and lowland Laos / Leedom Lefferts and Sandra Cate -- Concluding remarks: narrative visualization and embodied meaning / Greg M. Thomas.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- J 1158
Art, Asian -- Themes, motives
Narrative art -- Congresses
Narrative painting -- Congresses
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