num_pages: 296
description: In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material productsand pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how thecollaboration and tension between material form and image gives life toa painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears;its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with socialactivities and cultural conventions neglected.A screen occupies a space and divides it, supplies an ideal surface forpainting, and has been a favorite pictorial image in Chinese art sinceantiquity. Wu Hung undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the screen,which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all threeat once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinesepainters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art.The Double Screen provides a powerful non-Western perspective onissues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism,masquerade, and political rhetoric. It will be invaluable to anyoneinterested in the history of art and Asian studies.
language: English
title: The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting
titlecomplete: The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting
genres: Art History, China, Art
ratings_count: 26
publisher: University of Chicago Press