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9780935573558 English 0935573550 Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler and cleric Abbe Huc exclaimed: There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entertainments as the Chinese. Although the spectacle of this theater is well known, with its colorful costumes, props, and face painting, the extent to which opera was favored in Chinese pictorial and decorative motifs across the full spectrum of visual mediafrom courtly scroll paintings, popular New Year prints, illustrated woodblock books, and painted fans to carved utensils, ceramics, textiles, and dioramaswill surprise many. As the first comprehensive publication in English on the subject, "Performing Images "is not only a major interdisciplinary contribution to existing scholarshipfeaturing eight new essays by experts in the fields of traditional and modern Chinese literature, art, material culture, and historybut also a visual spectacle in its own right. A companion volume to the exhibition of the same name at the Smart Museum of Art, "Performing Images" contains more than one hundred color reproductions and over eighty illustrated catalogue entries. Together, text and image offer new insight into traditional Chinese culture, visual arts, and theater, and reveal how Chinese visual and performing traditions were aesthetically, ritually, and commercially intertwined.", Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveller and cleric Abb� Huc exclaimed: "There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entertainments as the Chinese." Although the spectacle of this theater is well-known, with its colorful costumes, props, and face painting, the extent to which opera was favored in Chinese pictorial and decorative motifs across the full spectrum of visual mediums--from courtly scroll paintings, popular New Year prints, illustrated woodblock books, and painted fans, to carved utensils, ceramics, textiles, and dioramas--will surprise many. As the first comprehensive publication in English on the subject, Performing Images is not only a major interdisciplinary contribution to existing scholarship--featuring eight new essays by experts in the fields of traditional and modern Chinese literature, art, material culture, and history--but also a visual spectacle in its own right. A companion volume to the exhibition of the same name at the Smart Museum of Art, Performing Images contains more than one hundred color reproductions and over eighty illustrated catalogue entries. Together, text and image offer new insight into traditional Chinese culture, visual arts, and theater, and reveal how Chinese visual and performing traditions were aesthetically, ritually, and commercially intertwined.
9780935573558 English 0935573550 Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler and cleric Abbe Huc exclaimed: There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entertainments as the Chinese. Although the spectacle of this theater is well known, with its colorful costumes, props, and face painting, the extent to which opera was favored in Chinese pictorial and decorative motifs across the full spectrum of visual mediafrom courtly scroll paintings, popular New Year prints, illustrated woodblock books, and painted fans to carved utensils, ceramics, textiles, and dioramaswill surprise many. As the first comprehensive publication in English on the subject, "Performing Images "is not only a major interdisciplinary contribution to existing scholarshipfeaturing eight new essays by experts in the fields of traditional and modern Chinese literature, art, material culture, and historybut also a visual spectacle in its own right. A companion volume to the exhibition of the same name at the Smart Museum of Art, "Performing Images" contains more than one hundred color reproductions and over eighty illustrated catalogue entries. Together, text and image offer new insight into traditional Chinese culture, visual arts, and theater, and reveal how Chinese visual and performing traditions were aesthetically, ritually, and commercially intertwined.", Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveller and cleric Abb� Huc exclaimed: "There is, perhaps, not a people in the world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical entertainments as the Chinese." Although the spectacle of this theater is well-known, with its colorful costumes, props, and face painting, the extent to which opera was favored in Chinese pictorial and decorative motifs across the full spectrum of visual mediums--from courtly scroll paintings, popular New Year prints, illustrated woodblock books, and painted fans, to carved utensils, ceramics, textiles, and dioramas--will surprise many. As the first comprehensive publication in English on the subject, Performing Images is not only a major interdisciplinary contribution to existing scholarship--featuring eight new essays by experts in the fields of traditional and modern Chinese literature, art, material culture, and history--but also a visual spectacle in its own right. A companion volume to the exhibition of the same name at the Smart Museum of Art, Performing Images contains more than one hundred color reproductions and over eighty illustrated catalogue entries. Together, text and image offer new insight into traditional Chinese culture, visual arts, and theater, and reveal how Chinese visual and performing traditions were aesthetically, ritually, and commercially intertwined.