De-Nin Lee

The Night Banquet

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Produktbeschreibung

The tenth-century Chinese handscroll The Night Banquet of Han Xizai (attributed to tenth-century artist Gu Hongzheng), long famous for its depiction of a decadent party hosted by a government official, is used by De-nin Lee to explore how art objects are created and the many sociopolitical eras and individual hands through which they pass.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 180mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780295990729
• ISBN-10: 0295990724
• Artikelnr.: 29977674

Autorenporträt

De-nin Lee

Inhaltsangabe

Note to Readers
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Cultural Biography of The Night Banquet of Han Xizai
1. Structure, Imagery, Authenticity
2. The Confucian Gaze and the Voyeuristic Gaze
3. The Confucian Gaze "A drunken man cursing in public"
4. The Connoisseurial Gaze "Like ancient jades . . . worth treasuring"
5. Looking through Modern Eyes "Fortune fit for a nation"
Epilogue Epitaph and Afterlife
Chinese Texts
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Notes
Bibliography
Index