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On telling images of China: essays in narrative painting and visual culture

On telling images of China: essays in narrative painting and visual culture
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ISBN 9888139436 (hbk.)
9789888139439 (hbk.)
Title On telling images of China : essays in narrative painting and visual culture / edited by Shane McCausland and Yin Hwang
Publisher Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2014
Physical desc. xxiv, 360 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.
Note "Papers delivered at an international colloquium held on 30 April and 1 May 2010 at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, in conjunction with the exhibition, Telling images of China: narrative and figure paintings, 15th-20th century, from the Shanghai Museum" -- p. [v].
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-344) and index.
Contents Pt. 1: Representing paradigms. Competing lives of Confucius: the Shengji tu at Kongzhai / Julia K. Murray -- Transcendence, thunder and exorcism: images of the Daoist patriarch Zhang Daoling in books and paintings / Noelle Giuffrida -- Exemplary complicity: the pictorial lives of Han court beauties in two narrative handscrolls of mid-Ming Suzhou / Shane McCausland -- Expressing innate knowledge of the good: the implied meaning in Guo Xu's 'An old lady feeds a hero' / Lizhong Ling -- Pt. 2: Interpreting literary themes and narratives. Narrative painting viewed as major art in sixteenth-century Suzhou / Cédric Laurent -- Historicity, visuality and patterns of literati transcendence: picturing the Red Cliff / Yu-chih Lai -- Visiting steles: variations of a painting theme / Clarissa von Spee -- Pt. 3: The medium and modernity. The posthumous careers of Wang Zhaojun, of Mencius's mother, of Shi Chong and of his concubine Lüzhu (Green Pearl) in the painting and popular print traditions / Ellen Johnston Laing -- From paragon to butcher: iconography and identity in the early portraiture of Ren Bonian (1840-95) / Roberta Wue -- Endless stories? narrative themes from the poets of the past reflected in the paintings of Fu Baoshi / Eric Lefebvre -- Afterword: Chinese art history as contemporary art history: an outsider's perspective / Kathleen James-Chakraborty.
Corporate name Chester Beatty Library -- Congresses
Subject Painting, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912 -- Congresses
Painting, Chinese -- Themes, motives -- Congresses
Narrative painting, Chinese -- Congresses
Added name(s) McCausland, Shane 1968- ed.
Yin, Hwang
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