Reinventing the past

Center for the Art of East Asia

2010

384 p.

9781588861092

Introduction. Patterns of returning to the ancients in Chinese art and visual culture / Wu Hung --I. Archaism, antiquarianism, and Chinese art history. Reviving ancient ornament and the presence of the past: examples from Shang and Zhou bronze vessels / Jessica Rawson --Antiquarianism in Eastern Zhou bronzes and its significance / Lothar von Falkenhausen --Imitation and reference in China's pictorial tradition / Martin J. Powers --II. Recontextualizing the past. Antiquarianism and re-envisioning empire in the Late Northern Wei / Katherine R. Tsiang --Reinventing the past, inventing a dynasty: inspiration of monuments of the past and Tang dynastic topography / Tonia Eckfeld --Replicating Zhou bells at the Northern Song court / Patricia Ebrey --III. Technologies of antiquarianism. Cataloguing antiquity: a comparative study of the Kaogu tu and Bogu tu / Yun-Chiahn C. Sena --Antiquarian politics and the politics of antiquarianism in Ming regional courts / Craig Clunas --Between printing and rubbing: Chu Jun's illustrated catalogues of ancient monuments in eighteenth-century China / Lillian Lan-Ying Tseng --IV. Modernizing the past. Composite rubbings in nineteenth-century China: the case of Wu Dacheng (1835-1902) and his friends / Qianshen Bai --Qing imperial collection, circa 1905-25: national humiliation, heritage preservation, and exhibition culture / Cheg-hua Wang --Antiquarianism or primitivism?: the edge of history in the modern Chinese imagination / Sarah E. Fraser.

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