Companion to Chinese Art

Martin J. Powers is Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, USA, and former director of the Center for Chinese Studies. His publications Art and Political Expression in Early China (1991) and Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China (2006) have both received the Levenson Prize for the best books in pre-twentieth century Chinese Studies. Katherine R. Tsiang is Associate Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia in the Department of Art History, University of Chicago, USA, where she coordinates research materials and programs. Her research is concentrated in the fields of Chinese Buddhist art and Chinese medieval art and visual culture. Her work includes using new technology for digital imaging and reconstruction of Chinese Buddhist caves and she is curator and author of the catalog of the exhibition "Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan" (2010).

• List of Figures xi Notes on Contributors xvIntroduction 1Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. TsiangPart I Production and Distribution 271 Court Painting 29Patricia Ebrey2 The Culture of Art Collecting in Imperial China 47Scarlett Jang3 Art, Print, and Cultural Discourse in Early Modern China 73J. P. Park4 Art and Early Chinese Archaeological Materials 91Xiaoneng YangPart II Representation and Reality 1135 Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror 115Shane McCausland6 The Language of Portraiture in China 136Dora C. Y. Ching7 Visualizing the Divine in Medieval China 158Katherine R. Tsiang8 Landscape 177Peter C. Sturman9 Concepts of Architectural Space in Historical Chinese Thought 195Cary Y. Liu10 Time in Early Chinese Art 212Eugene Y. WangPart III Theories and Terms 23311 The Art of “Ritual Artifacts” (Liqi): Discourse and Practice 235Wu Hung12 Classification, Canon, and Genre 254Richard Vinograd13 Conceptual and Qualitative Terms in Historical Perspective 277Ronald Egan14 Imitation and Originality, Theory and Practice 293Ginger Cheng-chi Hs¨u15 Calligraphy 312Qianshen Bai16 Emptiness-Substance: Xushi 329Jason C. KuoPart IV Objects and Persons 34917 Artistic Status and Social Agency 351Martin J. Powers18 Ornament in China 371Jessica Rawson19 Folding Fans and Early Modern Mirrors 392Antonia Finnane20 Garden Art 410Xin Wu21 Commercial Advertising Art in 1840–1940s “China” 431Tani E. BarlowPart V Word and Image 45522 Words in Chinese Painting 457Alfreda Murck23 On the Origins of Literati Painting in the Song Dynasty 474Jerome Silbergeld24 Poetry and Pictorial Expression in Chinese Painting 499Susan Bush25 Popular Literature and Visual Culture in Early Modern China 517Jianhua ChenIndex 535

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