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The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting (Essays in Art & Culture) - Hardcover
In this exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products and pictorial representations, the author sets out to show how the collaboration and tension between these two aspects gives life to a painting. He undertakes a forensic investigation of the screen, which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all three at once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinese painters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art. The book provides a non-Western perspective on issues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism, masquerade and political rhetoric.
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About the Author:
Wu Hung is Professor in Chinese Art History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books and scholarly articles, including The Wu Liang Shrine (1989) which won the 1990 Joseph Levinson prize for the best book in Chinese Studies.
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- PublisherReaktion Books
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0948462914
- ISBN 13 9780948462917
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages264
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