Research Catalog

Title

Boundaries of the self : Chinese portraits, 1600-1900 / Richard Vinograd.

Author

Vinograd, Richard Ellis

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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Details

Description

xv, 191 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Subject

Portrait painting, Chinese > Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-186) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction: Effigy, Emblem, and Event in Chinese Portraiture -- Concepts, Categories, and Conventions -- Effigy, Emblem, and Event -- Image/Shadow: Mythologies of Portraiture in Chinese Literature -- Outline of Early Chinese Portraiture -- 2. Boundaries of the Self: Images of the Artist in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Portraiture -- Chen Hongshou's Interrogations of the Present by the Past -- Self-Projections in the Art of Xiang Shengmo (1597-1658) -- Portrait Professions: Zeng Jing (1564-1647) and His Followers -- Yu Zhiding (1647 to after 1716) and Anecdotal Portraiture -- Psychologies and Mythologies of the Self: Portraits of Early Qing Individualists -- 3. Role and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Portraiture -- Strain of Artifice and the Disillusionment of Fiction -- Figures and Fictions in Early Eighteenth-Century Artist Portraits -- Missing Persons: The Portrait Situation -- Identities: Presence and Incarnation in Portraits by Luo Ping -- Generations: Self-Portrayals of Jin Nong in Text and Image -- Spiritual Imitations: Self-Portraits and Figure Paintings in Luo Ping's Later Career -- 4. Portrait and Position in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai -- Ren Xiong (1823-1857) and His Self-Portrait -- Three Friends: Ren Bonian (1840-1895) and the Image of the Artist at the End of Empire. Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters.

ISBN

0521385482 (hardback)

LCCN

^^^91031498^

OCLC

• 24375509
• SCSB-10181619

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library