Chinese art and dynastic time / Wu Hung.
"Throughout Chinese history, dynastic time--the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties--has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chinese art. There has been little examination of this concept in discourse and practice until now. "Chinese Art and Dynastic Time" u...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ;
2019. Bollingen series ; 35:68. |
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| Physical Description: | 337 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), colour maps ; 27 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Part one: Models and patterns. The emergence of dynastic time in Chinese art
- Reconfiguring the world: The first emperor's art projects
- Conflicting temporalities: Heaven's mandate and its antitheses
- Part two: Politics and religion. Miraculous icons and dynastic time: Narrating Buddhist images in medieval China
- Landscape and dynastic power: Competing Yue
- Part three: Past and present. Art history and dynastic time: Reading Zhang Yanyuan
- Blind spots of dynastic time: The case of the Liao
- Returning to the past: Fugu and dynastic time
- Part four: Rupture and revolution. Art of absence: Remnant subject and post-dynastic temporality
- End as beginning: Dynastic time and revolution
- Conclusion: Dynastic time and beyond.