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Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture
Contributor(s): Zeitlin, Judith T. (Author), Li, Yuhang (Author)
ISBN: 0935573550     ISBN-13: 9780935573558
Publisher: Smart Museum of Art, the University of C
OUR PRICE:   $34.65  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: February 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | Asian - General
- Art | Subjects & Themes - General
Dewey: 704.949
LCCN: 2013043319
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 9.09" W x 12.01" (3.03 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
 
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Publisher Description:
Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler 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 media--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.

Contributor Bio(s): Li, Yuhang: - Yuhang Li is assistant professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Zeitlin, Judith T.: - Judith T. Zeitlin is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, both at the University of Chicago. They are also members of the Faculty Committee in Theater and Performance Studies.