Chinese Art and Dynastic Time / / Hung Wu.

A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art historyThroughout 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 241 color + 63 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Models and Patterns
  • 1 The Emergence of Dynastic Time in Chinese Art
  • 2 Reconfiguring the World. The First Emperor’s Art Projects
  • 3 Conflicting Temporalities Heaven’s Mandate and Its Antitheses
  • Part Two Politics and Religion
  • 4 Miraculous Icons and Dynastic Time. Narrating Buddhist Images in Medieval China
  • 5 Landscape and Dynastic Power. Competing Yue
  • Part Three Past and Present
  • 6 Art History and Dynastic Time. Reading Zhang Yanyuan
  • 7 Blind Spots of Dynastic Time. The Case of the Liao
  • 8 Returning to the Past. Fugu and Dynastic Time
  • Part Four Rupture and Revolution
  • 9 Art of Absence. Remnant Subject and Post-dynastic Temporality
  • 10 End as Beginning. Dynastic Time and Revolution
  • Conclusion. Dynastic Time and Beyond
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Photo and Illustration Credits
  • A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1952–2021