Facing China Truth And Memory In Portraiture

Author : Richard Vinograd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781789145328
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facing China: Truth and Memory in Portraiture written by Richard Vinograd and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated examination of portraiture in China across media and millennia. Facing China is an exploration of the portrait arts in China from the dynastic to the modern and contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography, and video. The book focuses on truth and memory in the portraiture process, from encounters between subject, portrait, and artist, to broader familial, social, and political arenas. It also examines the influence of location on portrait production, reception, and display, from tombs, ancestral shrines, temples, gardens, and palace halls to public and private spaces. Featuring one hundred fifty fine illustrations, with one hundred in color, Facing China has much to say to specialists in the field as well as general readers interested in Chinese art.

Author : Richard Ellis Vinograd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521385480
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundaries of the Self written by Richard Ellis Vinograd and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the developments in the function of informal portraiture in later Ming and Qing dynasty China, from about AD1600 to 1900. The study focuses on images of artists, including self-portraits, and their associates from centres of painting in

Author : Julia Frances Andrews
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragmented Memory written by Julia Frances Andrews and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacques Penhirin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Portraits written by Jacques Penhirin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book portrays 38 Chinese from today’s People’s Republic of China. It shows a range of different lifestyles including a rock star in Beijing, an old priest in Canton, a chef in Chengdu, a professor of Chinese history in Nanjing, and a farmer in the Ningxia desert.

Author : Luke Gartlan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367331122
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan written by Luke Gartlan and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume explores the early history of the photographic studio and portrait in China and Japan. The institution of the photographic studio has received relatively little attention in the history of photography; contributors here investigate various manifestations of the studio as a place and as a space that was cultural, economic, and creative. Its authors also look closely at the studio portrait not as images alone, but also as collaborative ventures between studio operators and sitters, opportunities to invent new roles, images which merged the new medium with "traditional" visual practices, as well as the portrait's part in devising modern, gendered, nationalistic, and public identities for its subjects. As the first collection of its kind, Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan analyzes the photographic likeness - its producers, subjects, viewers, and pictorial forms - and argues for the historical significance of the photographic studio as a specific and new space central to the formation of new identities and communities. Photography's identity as a transnational technology is thus explored through the local uses, adaptations, and assimilations of the imported medium, presenting modern images of their subjects in specific Japanese and Chinese contexts"--Back cover.

Author : Ma Jian
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640092412
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Dream written by Ma Jian and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending fact and fiction, this darkly comic fable “may be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Ma’s talent for probing the country’s darkest corners and exposing what he regards as the Communist Party’s moral failings” (Mike Ives, The New York Times). Called “Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful!" by Margaret Atwood on Twitter, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, is feeling pleased with himself. He has an impressive office, three properties, and multiple mistresses who text him day and night. After decades of loyal service, he has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with replacing people's private dreams with President Xi Jinping's great China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, his sanity begins to unravel. Suddenly plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, Ma Daode's nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future. Exposing the damage inflicted on a nation's soul when authoritarian regimes, driven by an insatiable hunger for power, seek to erase memory, rewrite history, and falsify the truth, China Dream is a dystopian vision of repression, violence, and state–imposed amnesia that is set not in the future, but in China today.

Author : Jan Stuart
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804742627
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worshiping the Ancestors written by Jan Stuart and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their powerful presence and exquisite quality, Chinese ancestor portraits have never been studied as a genre. This illustrated text explores the artistic, historical, and religious significance of these paintings and places them in context with other types of commemorative portraiture. During the late Ming (1368-1644) and Quing (1644-1911) dynasties, full-length portraits of individual men and women came into vogue. These ancestor portraits were important objects of veneration, and the practice continued into the 20th century, when paintings were gradually replaced by photographs. The authors explore the works in depth, presenting a fascinating glimpse of Chinese life and culture and providing biographies of the sitters. Worshiping the Ancestors should appeal to connoisseurs of Chinese art and to all those interested in social history, portraiture, and devotional art.

Author : Nigel Cameron
Publisher : Millerton, N.Y. : Aperture
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Face of China as Seen by Photographers & Travelers, 1860-1912 written by Nigel Cameron and published by Millerton, N.Y. : Aperture. This book was released on 1978 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted for the first time since its original publication twenty years ago, The Face of China is an evocative and candid collection of some of the first photographs made in that country. Along with descriptive captions, these images describe the daily Life and surroundings of an era now passed. The people are as seen through Western eyes, and the places are as traversed by foreigners. These early photographers were explorers and adventurers. They tugged huge cameras with heavy glass plates over rugged, unfamiliar terrain. Interspersed throughout the book are passages from significant texts and travelers' diaries, observations and opinions that echo and illuminate the images. For many Chinese, these photographers were the first white faces ever seen, and they carried with them previously undreamed of contraptions. For all this, there is an unguarded air to many of the portraits, and the street scenes have the candid took of today's street photographer.

Author : Caroline Turner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152610072X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and human rights written by Caroline Turner and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a deeply researched account of contemporary Asian art movements, focusing on the work of a select group of internationally renowned and politically engaged artists.

Author : Tang Xin
Publisher : Acc Art Books
ISBN 13 : 9781788841108
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait Fever written by Tang Xin and published by Acc Art Books. This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - The first academic insight into the Taikang photography collection- High-quality pictures of this revered gallery accompanied by essays from the experts- A glimpse into how portrait photography has shaped the history of China From political leaders to celebrities, photographic portraits exert considerable influence over our reaction to public figures. As the first academic publication focused on the Taikang photography collection, this book explores both the mechanics of portraiture and its psychological effects. Taikang Space is one of the most important non-profit art institutions in China. Based in Beijing, they focus on contemporary art and photography. Portrait Fever is based on the framework of the eponymous exhibition, which ran at Taikang Space from March 2017. This book introduces the curator and researchers involved with the exhibition, as well as researchers such as Shi Zhimin, Jin Yongquan, Liu Jianping, Liu Zhangbolong, who deliver their own unique angles on the topic of portrait photography. Portrait Fever also features the curator's interviews with Qia Sijie, Chen Shilin and Zhang Zuo - respectively the personal photographer, standard portrait re-toucher and darkroom technician of Chairman Mao.