As multi-functional as they are artistically important, folding and standing screens assume a variety of roles unique to the cultures of East Asia. Frequently used in dwellings, temples, and tombs, East Asian screens have a rich history from ancient times up to the modern period, and yet they rarely have been examined as an art form in themselves. This volume of essays makes th...(展开全部)

巫鸿（Wu Hung）早年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组，获中央美术学院美术史系硕士。1987年获哈佛大学美术史与人类学双重博士学位，后在该校美术史系任教，1994年获终身教授职位。同年受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术的教学、研究项目，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席，2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任。 其著作《武梁祠：中国古代画像艺术的思想性》获1989年全美亚洲学年会最佳著作奖（李文森奖）；《中国古代美术和建筑中的纪念碑性》获评1996年杰出学术出版物，被列为20世纪90年代最有意义的艺术学著作之一；《重屏：中国绘画中的媒介与表现》获全美最佳美术史著作提名。参与编写《中国绘画三千年》（1997）、《剑桥中国先秦史》（1999）等。多次回国客座讲学，发起“汉唐之间”中国古代美术史、考古学研究系列国际讨论会，并主编三册论文集。 近年致力于中国现当代艺术的...(展开全部)

巫鸿（Wu Hung）早年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组，获中央美术学院美术史系硕士。1987年获哈佛大学美术史与人类学双重博士学位，后在该校美术史系任教，1994年获终身教授职位。同年受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术的教学、研究项目，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席，2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任。 其著作《武梁祠：中国古代画像艺术的思想性》获1989年全美亚洲学年会最佳著作奖（李文森奖）；《中国古代美术和建筑中的纪念碑性》获评1996年杰出学术出版物，被列为20世纪90年代最有意义的艺术学著作之一；《重屏：中国绘画中的媒介与表现》获全美最佳美术史著作提名。参与编写《中国绘画三千年》（1997）、《剑桥中国先秦史》（1999）等。多次回国客座讲学，发起“汉唐之间”中国古代美术史、考古学研究系列国际讨论会，并主编三册论文集。 近年致力于中国现当代艺术的...(展开全部)

Product Description In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears; its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social activities and...(展开全部)

Product Description In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears; its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social activities and...(展开全部)

Colour, Art and Empire explores the entanglements of visual culture, enchanted technologies, waste, revolution, resistance and otherness. The materiality of colour offers a critical and timely force-field for approaching afresh debates on colonialism. This book analyses the formation of colour and politics as qualitative overspill. Colour can be viewed both as central and suppl...(展开全部)

"Fat". In contemporary society the word never fails to elicit powerful emotions, especially as it relates to bodily health and appearance. But fat is a noun as well as an adjective and has a cultural life outside of its relationship with the human body. By focusing on the complex physical and experiential dimensions of this problematic substance, Fat: Culture and Materiality br...(展开全部)

Filled with anecdotes about collectors, artists, and museums, and a chronological history of the spread of East Asian art collecting in the U.S., East Asian Art and American Culture provides insights on art collecting, art collectors, and their influence on society.

Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve...(展开全部)