Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture
Edited by Wu Hung and Katherine R. Tsiang
Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture
Edited by Wu Hung and Katherine R. Tsiang
In this volume, authors agree that Chinese images are conditioned by indigenous traditions and dynamics of social interaction, but they also seek to explain a general Chinese body and face by charting multiple, specific bodies and faces. From the diversity of art forms and historical periods studied, this volume provides a more complex picture of ways that the visual culture of the body and face in China has served to depict the living, memorialize the dead, and present the unrepresentable in art.
Contributors: Qianshen Bai, Robert E. Harrist, Jr., Jonathan Hay, Susan E. Nelson, Kathleen M. Ryor, Jan Stuart, Katherine R. Tsiang, Eugene Y. Wang, Wu Hung, Roberta Wue, Zhang Zhen, and Judith T. Zeitlin.