Research Catalog

Title

Performing images : opera in Chinese visual culture / Judith Zeitlin, Yuhang Li ; with contributions by Bo Songnian, Jonathan Hay [and 4 others].

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : Smart Museum of Art, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Zeitlin, Judith T., 1958-
• Li, Yuhang
• Bo, Songnian
• Hay, Jonathan, 1956-
• David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art.

Description

232 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

"Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler and cleric Abbe Huc exclaimed: "There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entertainments as the Chinese." Although the spectacle of this theater is well known, with its colorful costumes, props, and face painting, the extent to which opera was favored in Chinese pictorial and decorative motifs across the full spectrum of visual media-from courtly scroll paintings, popular New Year prints, illustrated woodblock books, and painted fans to carved utensils, ceramics, textiles, and dioramas-will surprise many. As the first comprehensive publication in English on the subject, Performing Images is not only a major interdisciplinary contribution to existing scholarship-featuring eight new essays by experts in the fields of traditional and modern Chinese literature, art, material culture, and history-but also a visual spectacle in its own right. A companion volume to the exhibition of the same name at the Smart Museum of Art, Performing Images contains more than one hundred color reproductions and over eighty illustrated catalogue entries. Together, text and image offer new insight into traditional Chinese culture, visual arts, and theater, and reveal how Chinese visual and performing traditions were aesthetically, ritually, and commercially intertwined"--

Subject

• Opera in art > Exhibitions
• Art, Chinese > Exhibitions
• Operas, Chinese > Exhibitions
• Art and society > China > Exhibitions
• ART / Asian

Note

• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture, co-curated by Judith T. Zeitlin and Yuhang Li and organized by the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, February 13-June 15, 2014."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-227) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Toward a Visual Culture of Chinese Opera / Judith T. Zeitlin -- World-Making in Performance and Painting: An Intertwined History / Jonathan Hay -- Opera Imagery in the Village / David G. Johnson -- Images of Opera Characters Related to the Qing Court / Mei Mei Rado -- Representing Theatricality on Textiles / Yuhang Li -- Operatic Images in Popular New Year Prints / Bo Songnian -- The Iconographic Variations of Two Scenes from Romance of the Western Chamber / Ni Yibin -- Inspired by the Opera: Reimagining Traditional Opera in Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video / Wu Hung.

Call Number

JMG 14-45

ISBN

• 9780935573558 (pbk.)
• 0935573550 (pbk.)

LCCN

2013043319

OCLC

859583534

Title

Performing images : opera in Chinese visual culture / Judith Zeitlin, Yuhang Li ; with contributions by Bo Songnian, Jonathan Hay [and 4 others].

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : Smart Museum of Art, [2014]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-227) and index.

Added Author

Zeitlin, Judith T., 1958- author.

Li, Yuhang, author.

Bo, Songnian, contributor.

Hay, Jonathan, 1956- contributor.

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art.

Research Call Number

JMG 14-45