Hardback | |
November 9, 2010 | |
9780295990729 | |
English | |
172 | |
31 illus., 16 in color | |
7.00 Inches (US) | |
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1.2 Pounds (US) | |
$40.00 USD | |
v2.1 Reference | |
The Night Banquet
Through her deft detective work, we watch the Night Banquet handscroll-much like the enigmatic seventeenth-century Cremonese instrument in Francois Girard's film The Red Violin-travel through the centuries from owner to owner and viewer to viewer, influencing and being influenced by the people who contemplate it and add their thoughts, signatures, and seals to its borders. Treating the scroll as a co-creation of painter and viewers, Lee tells a fascinating story of cultural practices surrounding Chinese paintings. In effect, her book addresses a question central to art history: What is the role of art in a society?
About the Author
Reviews
"The reader is led on a journey viewing the way the painting survived, was enjoyed, and analyzed over the centuries. These historical and literary arguments are compelling. . . . detailed and insightful . . ."—Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, China Review International, Vol. 18:1, 2011
"The following chapters almost read like a 'detective' story. The book is a real page turner, as it gives the reader a broad impression of how the painting has been appreciated by different viewers and owners over a long stretch of time."—Lucien van Valen, IIAS Newsletter, Spring 2012
"Lee's commentary brings both the banquet itself back to life and all those who have taken a peek at the proceedings since that long-ago dynasty."—Bob Duggan, The BigThink, June 2011
"[This book] is the first book-length study in English devoted to this painting in its entirety, from the frontispiece to all of the colophons and seals. . . . The Night Banquet is a well-researched and sensibly structured work. Lee successfully merges several subfields of Chinese art history–visual analysis, colleting history, and connoisseurship–under the rubric of “cultural life.”"—An-Yi Pan, The Art Bulletin, Vol. 95, No. 1
Endorsements
"Lee has been immensely successful in her quest to uncover the history and changing significance of the Han Xizai scroll, detailing what a spectrum of career officials, connoisseurs, collectors, and emperors had to say about it-sometimes disapproving of the subject matter as licentious and immoral, sometimes considering it a vehicle for comment on current political situations. A masterful study, rooted in extensive original research, rich in detail and interpretation, The Night Banquet is a major contribution to the study of Chinese painting and to Chinese culture in general."—Ellen Johnston Laing, University of Michigan
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Hardback | |
November 9, 2010 | |
9780295990729 | |
English | |
172 | |
31 illus., 16 in color | |
7.00 Inches (US) | |
10.00 Inches (US) | |
1.2 Pounds (US) | |
$40.00 USD | |
v2.1 Reference | |
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