...Amjad Majid This article presents the work of Chinese artist and printmaker Chen Haiyan, providing a critical analysis of her lifetime of woodcuts, prints, and ink paintings. The topics explored are the integration of dreams in Chen Haiyan's art and their relation to “the fantastic,” which...

.... The Chineseness of Chinese paintings can be found most readily in the Benjamin ∣∣ Chinese Paintings at the National Library 187 expressive power of the brushwork. On paper or on silk, the lines or gures traced by the brush dipped in ink render...

... readers, shorn of allegiances to narrative representational form, truer to the issue's focus ( fig. 2 ). Such images were a sampling of the ink-and-color works on paper that Wu produced in the years following the Cultural Revolution. Meishu printed one large-scale painting, Roots , in miniaturized form...

... Commodity ”. In Art in Turmoil: The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966–76 , edited by King Richard , 136 – 66 . Vancouver : UBC Press . David Elise J . 2019 . “ Networks Sketched in Ink: Wu Shujuan (1853–1930) and Female Celebrity in the Shanghai Art World .” PhD diss. , Ohio State...

... the beauty of traditional Chinese paintings, exemplifies the general reception of photography in Japan during the Tokugawa period. But he also presents a conundrum: How could pho- tographic representations also have been perceived as so “earnest...

... reinterpretations of Chinese works of the imperial era that represented idealized female figures from a male perspective. Ladies’ Room , a video that shows behind-the-scenes images of sex workers in a nightclub washroom, brings to mind earlier paintings that depict women in feminine space. Ladies’ Room , however...

... such a photograph? As a redeployment of the Emer- sonian pictorialist practices of photography once prevalent across East Asia? Or as an evocation of other mediums, such as landscape ink painting? Or, since the pictorialist practices it uses to evoke...

... is like international expositions and museums in peculiar ways; the Chinese paintings in it, devoted to the nation, are paradoxically invisible. In the article I explore how and why, establishing the ways in which painting was newly understood to matter in the modern era. Copyright 2011 by Duke...

... of Longing and Desire: Gender and Interiority in Chinese Painting and Poetry (2018). positions 28:1 doi 10.1215/10679847-7913145 Copyright 2020 by Duke University Press positions 28:1 February 2020 276 Meiling Cheng is professor of theater in critical studies at the School of Dramatic Arts and professor...

... Chinese Women s Art). Women were no longer silent, no longer the voiceless objects of painting, literature, or voyeurism, but now its creators. Here began the journey of Chinese women s art toward embracing female subjectivity. It was an era, describes author Jia Fangzhou (2017), during which women...

...), however, works illustrating or employing the Great Wall were relatively rare. Often depicted in landscapes, commonly rendered in the convention of woodcuts or traditional ink painting and classifiable as “industrial landscapes,” the wall usually...

... that it is indeed a fly, of all things, that is singled out in these two anecdotes as a paradigmatic figure linking contem- Rojas ❘❘ Flies’ Eyes, Mural Remnants, and Jia Pingwa’s Perverse Nostalgia 751 porary Chinese society back to the Han/Tang golden age of Chinese...

... (see g. 7), Dazhai landscapes often use extreme abstraction to represent labor. Unlike Maoist mass culture, such as public posters with written slo- positions 28:4 November 2020 770 gans, the two genres of socialist high art oil painting and national painting (traditional ink and brush painting...

... their ambitions (in the recollections of Bakusen) “to cultivate an international flowering of our nation’s painting [kokuga31 Kokuga has etymological roots in the Chinese word guoha, which today serves to designate the modern Chinese...

... as a response to the “psoriasis” of messy graffiti in the urban landscape, with a view to creating an “eastern” urban atmosphere where people can “read Chinese civilization on the urban wall” (Wang 2012 ). Visual decorations on culture walls are painted with a brush rather than sprayed and therefore exhibit...

...: Ink Rubbing and Its Related Ideas in Contemporary Chinese Art .” In Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction, and Interpretation in the Arts of China , edited by Pearce Nick and Steuber Jason , 212 – 35 . Gainesville : University Press of Florida . Lopez Donald S...

... of the anthropologist Frederick Starr stemming from his 1911 visit, in the window between Sǒkkuram's 1907 “rediscovery” and its first rebuilding of 1913. This record illuminates long-forgotten aspects of Sǒkkuram's materiality — such as how it was painted. Yet my purpose is not antiquarian; rather, it is to examine two...

..., and the Margins of the Modern Nation,” In Homi K. Bhabha, ed., Nation and Narration , 291–322. London: Routledge, 1990. Bodman , Richard , and Pin P. Wan Death Song of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series Heshang. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University East Asian Program, 1991. Cascardi...

... of mainland Chinese tourists in HK. The production of these paintings was managed by HK but researched and made in Shen- zhen. Leung took a class in a Shenzhen workshop to advance her learning: positions 28:1 February 2020 266 I painted Disneyland Mickey Mouse, Bruce Lee film stills, electronic product shop...

..., such as ink-brush painting, that has been marginalized in favor of more contemporary media such as installation and performance. A thorough knowledge of the historicity of visual art offers necessary context, especially since those trained...