Search Results for Qing photography

... portrait artist Katherine Carl appears to have accidentally positioned the two mediums—photography and painting—in antagonistic terms and along politically potent lines. While the painted portrait sessions became irritatingly oppressive experiences, reminding Cixi of the Qing court's new dependence...

... become an important topos in early-twentieth-century portrait photography around shifting masculinities in the fin-de-siècle transition to a republic. The thirteen-year-old Puyi sheared his off, effectively ending the Qing custom, after Johnston's offhand reference to the queue as a pigtail. Puyi, From...

...: Lang Jingshan’s Photography in Context      11 vul­ner­a­ble to the crit­i­cism that Lang was an es­cap­ist, a disci­ ple­ of the conser­ va­ tive­ National Essence Group of the Late Qing, ad­vo­cat­ing a time­less, ahis­tor­i­cal, and re­duc­ tionist­ spirit of “Chineseness.”53...

... and Terpak , “ Through a Foreign Glass: The Art and Science of Photography in Late Qing China .” In Cody and Terpak , Brush & Shutter , 33 – 68 . Cree, Edward . The Cree Journals: The Voyages of Edward H. Cree, Surgeon R.N., as Related in His Private Journals, 1837–1856 . Edited by Michael...

.... Eugene Wang’s study of West Garden in Beijing, to which Beihai belonged dur- Huang Yanpei’s photography album West Lake, ing the Qing dynasty, the Mountain Villa was designed Hangchow discusses another modern example of how to evoke the concept of paradise, with three islands for a revolutionary...

... collections. 138 THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois Jay Xu, Curator of Asian Art 1. Couch-bed. China. Late Ming / early Qing dynasty. 17th c. Huanghuali wood with woven mat seat; 79.0 Â 213.0 Â 124.5 cm. Acc. no. 2006.14. G. Ronald and Evelyn...

... album to Qingming shanghe tu . The concentration on figures in Chen's album, however, exhibits more connection to the type of fengsu hua that depicts different occupations. Fengsu hua was often produced in the Qing dynasty to visualize prosperity and heavenly peace as a result of an emperor's...

... and Travelers in Snowy Mountains. China. Qing dynasty (1644-1911), dated to 1745. Hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk; 170.2 x 124 cm. Metropolitan...

... important topics in Qing dynasty (1644–1912) culture, from the study and preservation of ancient calligraphy to the dynamics of early-nineteenth-century scholarly networks, or even the role of artisan carvers and copyists in literati cultural production. 3 This essay, however, centers around a very...

... (Qing dynasty, mid-18th century). China. Unmounted thangka; ink and color on silk; 113.6 x 64.3 cm. F2000.4. Purchase Fig. 54. / Bodhisattva White Avalokiteshvara (Amoghapasha Lokeshvara) (14th century). Nepal. Polychromed wood; 162.5 x 96 x 37 cm. F2000.5. Purchase—Friends of the Freer...

... [ yinqing 隐情].” That “anything” (qing of yinqing) is wonderfully multilayered in its meanings. Art historian Wen-chien Cheng observes that qing within an art context typically is translated as “emotion,” “feeling,” or “affection.” 32 And to “hide” it (to yin it) would seem to ask for placing...

... was a genealogical bent to Liu’s prac- instance, Liu Kuiling commented: ‘‘When he painted tice. In his painting inscriptions, he credits at least 28 horses the basic form and body were correct, but as soon artists from the Five Dynasties through the Qing as his as the horse begins to run, the perspective...

... nationalism much as Zhang Daqian's contemporary mural copies. The virtue of Lo's efforts and the editor's methodical presentation of his photographs in Visualizing Dunhuang is that art of all periods, including renovations and graffiti, is faithfully depicted (vol. 7, Five Dynasties–Qing). As Roderick...

... steel in Koftgari technique, 16 × 34 cm. Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.126. Chicago Collectors Circle, Friends of Indian and Islamic Art, and Asian Art Council Acquisition funds. Ewer (duomuhu), China, Late Ming/early Qing dynasty, seventeenth century. Gilt bronze and cloisonné enamel, 60.5 × 35 cm...

... to late-Qing practices of antiquarianism, especially in terms of their respective orientations toward connoisseurship, collecting, and accurate transcription of form, but without the attendant interest in paleography and the study of inscriptions. 35 In a contemporary set of notebooks in which Pang...

... versus flanking figure. Shea Ingram, the lone repre- lost environments, physical, religious, social, and politi- sentative of a field outside of art history (Buddhist his- cal. After sketching the Qing court and colonial contexts tory), asked us to look very closely at the iconography of an eighteenth...

... the dynasty ended, and that the general decadence of Chinese art was declared to have become a fait accompli in the Qing dynasty. 39 The same pejorative passages quoted above from Bushell's book—which treat China as an object for the West to observe, assess, and deem as innately inferior—appear...

... 39 and (2) from early to mid-Qing, circa 1717— Because of the sweep of Professor Cahill's argument, I have found it useful to summarize and synthesize much Cahill " a turning point in Chinese painting" after which painters...

... early Qing dynasty, ca. 1644–1700, inset back panel Japan, early Edo period. Lacquered softwood with painted...

... developments, and court patronage image on the head, which is a reliable if not invariable under the Yuan, Ming, and Qing emperors. indicator of this bodhisattva. Instead, in this position is One of the more spectacular works in Buddhist a triple crest, which is more appropriate...