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Non-Portraits in the Late Northern Song
2013年11月29日
4:30pm – 6:00pm
香港中文大學鄭裕彤樓2樓6號演講廰
Prof. Peter Sturman
Peter Sturman is Professor of Chinese Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His has written widely on painting and calligraphy, with a particular focus on the literati tradition. Among his major publications are Mi Fu: Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China (Yale University Press, 1997) and The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in 17th-Century China (The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2012). His current book project is on the development and practice of literati painting during the Northern Song.
Free admission, registration required.
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3943 7615
Literati (wenren) artists of the late Northern Song period are known to have painted in almost every major genre, including landscapes, bamboo, bird-and-flower, horses, and figures, but portraiture is noticeably absent. A close contextual study of one painting in particular, The Ear Picker, wrongly attributed to the Five Dynasties Period painter Wang Qihan of the tenth century, will demonstrate that portraiture of a very particular nature, one that ironically can be labeled self-effacing, was not only practiced by wenren painters in Su Shi’s coterie, it constitutes some of the most intriguing works of art of the eleventh and early twelfth centuries. The Ear Picker will be examined in the context of other figural representations from the Song dynasty to consider questions regarding the physical expression of the ‘self’ in an era when art, politics, and a heightened concern for making one’s mark in history resulted in fascinating experimentations in painting.
