Research Catalog

Title

Chinese art and dynastic time / Wu Hung.

Author

Wu Hung, 1945-

Publication

• Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Description

337 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 27 cm.

Summary

"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" uncovers how the development of Chinese art was described in its original cultural, sociopolitical, and artistic contexts, and how these narratives were interwoven with contemporaneous artistic creation. In doing so, leading art historian Wu Hung opens up new pathways for the consideration of not only Chinese art, but also the whole of art history. Wu Hung brings together ten case studies, ranging from the third millennium BCE to the early twentieth century CE, and spanning ritual and religious art, painting, sculpture, the built environment, and popular art in order to examine the deep-rooted patterns in the historical conceptualization of Chinese art. Elucidating the changing notions of dynastic time in various contexts, he also challenges the preoccupation with this concept as the default mode in art historical writing. This critical investigation of dynastic time thus constitutes an essential foundation to pursue new narrative and interpretative frameworks in thinking about art history. Remarkable for the sweep and scope of its arguments and lucid style, "Chinese Art and Dynastic Time" probes the roots of the collective imagination in Chinese art and frees us from long-held perspectives on how this art should be understood."--Book jacket.

Series Statement

• The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 2019
• Bollingen series ; xxxv : volume 68

Uniform Title

• A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 2019.
• Bollingen series ; 35:68.

Subject

• Art and society > China > History
• Time and art > China > History
• Time perception > China > History
• Art, Chinese > Historiography
• Art, Chinese
• Art and society
• Time and art
• Time perception
• Historiography
• China

Genre/Form

• History.
• Illustrated works.
• Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-331) and index.

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.

Call Number

JQF 23-375

ISBN

• 9780691231013
• 069123101X

LCCN

2021952753

OCLC

1262798757

Author

Wu Hung, 1945- author. Author

Title

Chinese art and dynastic time / Wu Hung.

Publisher

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 2019

Bollingen series ; xxxv : volume 68

A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 2019.

Bollingen series ; 35:68.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-331) and index.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9780691231402

Research Call Number

JQF 23-375