The Double Screen

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  • The Double Screen Book Detail

  • Author : Wu Hung
  • Release Date : 1996-11-22
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Genre : Art
  • Pages : 298
  • ISBN 13 : 1861898428
  • File Size : 51,51 MB

The Double Screen by Wu Hung PDF Summary

Book Description: In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears; its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social activities and cultural conventions neglected. A screen occupies a space and divides it, supplies an ideal surface for painting, and has been a favorite pictorial image in Chinese art since antiquity. Wu Hung undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the screen, which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all three at once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinese painters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art. The Double Screen provides a powerful non-Western perspective on issues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism, masquerade, and political rhetoric. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of art and Asian studies.

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