Ebook: A Companion to Chinese Art

List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Historiographic perspective -- Overview of the chapters -- Part I. Production and distribution: 1. Court painting; 2. The culture of art collecting in imperial China; 3. Art, print, and cultural discourse in early modern China; 4. Art and early Chinese archaeological materials -- Part II. Representation and reality: 5. Figure painting: fragments of the precious mirror; 6. The language of portraiture in China; 7. Visualizing the divine in medieval China; 8. Landscape; 9. Concepts of architectural space in historical Chinese thought; 10. Time in early Chinese art -- Part III. Theories and termsL 11. The art of "ritual artifacts " (Liqi): discourse and practice; 12. Classification, canon, and genre; 13. Conceptual and qualitative terms in historical perspective; 14. Imitation and originality, theory and practice; 15. Calligraphy; 16. Emptiness-substance: Xushi -- Part IV. Objects and persons: 17. Artistic status and social agency; 18. Ornament in China; 19. Folding fans and early modern mirrors; 20. Garden art; 21. Commercial advertising art in 1840-1940s China -- Part V. Word and image: 22. Words in Chinese painting; 23. On the origins of literati painting in the Song Dynasty; 24. Poetry and pictorial expression in Chinese painting; 25. Popular literature and visual culture in early modern China -- Epilogue.;Exploring the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day, this comprehensive volume includes newly-commissioned essays spanning the theories, genres, and media central to Chinese art and theory throughout its history.