Facing China

Truth and Memory in Portraiture

Facing China
Richard Vinograd
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Hardback
h250 x 190mm - 304pg
16 May 2022 UK
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9781789145328
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Facing China is an exploration of the portrait arts in China from the dynastic to the modern and contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography and video. The book focuses on truth and memory in the portraiture process, from encounters between subject, portrait and artist, to broader familial, social and political arenas. It also examines the influence of location on portrait production, reception and display, from tombs, ancestral shrines, temples, gardens, and palace halls to public and private spaces. Featuring 150 fine illustrations, with 100 in colour, Facing China has much to say to specialists in the field as well as general readers interested in Chinese art.
"Facing China, drawing on Vinograd' s unsurpassed knowledge of the historical materials as well as his profoundly theoretical and creative approaches, is a brilliant and unprecedented study of portraits in Chinese visual culture. "--J. P. Park, June and Simon Li Professor in the History of Art and Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford "Vinograd' s brilliant Facing China fearlessly renegotiates the challenging territory of the Chinese portrait. Through attentive analysis and compelling readings, he offers a rich new vision of the portrait as agent and interface, one capable of generating human bonds and identities across lineage, community, cultures, and time. "--Roberta Wue, associate professor, University of California, Irvine, author of Art Worlds: Artists, Images, and Audiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai "Facing China casts a broader vision across time and space that fully reflects the author' s erudition, traversing boundaries between the historical and the modern/contemporary China and engaging cross-cultural issues beyond China to the global. "--Hui-shu Lee, professor of Chinese art, University of California, Los Angeles, author of Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China
Richard Vinograd is Christensen Fund Professor in Asian Art in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of many books including Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang (2018).
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ISBN-13: 9781789145328
Published: 16 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 250mm
Width: 190mm
Pages: 304

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