The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture 9780824872564
China has an age-old zoomorphic tradition. The First Emperor was famously said to have had the heart of a tiger and a wo
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
Trading Places: An Introduction to Zoomorphism and Anthropomorphism in Chinese Art
chapter 1. The Taotie Motif on Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes
chapter 2. Labeling the Creatures: Some Problems in Han and Six Dynasties Iconography
chapter 3. Representing the Twelve Calendrical Animals as Beastly, Human, and Hybrid Beings in Medieval China
chapter 4. The Didactic Use of Animal Images in Southern Song Buddhism: The Case of Mount Baoding in Dazu, Sichuan
chapter 5. Evil Dragon, Golden Rodent, Sleek Hound: The Evolution of Soushan Tu Paintings in the Northern Song Period
chapter 6. Animals in Chinese Rebus Paintings
chapter 7. The Pictorial Form of a Zoomorphic Ecology: Dragons and Their Painters in Song and Southern Song China
chapter 8. The Political Animal: Metaphoric Rebellion in Zhao Yong’s Painting of Heavenly Horses
chapter 9. How the Giraffe Became a Qilin: Intercultural Signification in Ming Dynasty Arts
chapter 10. Weird Science: European Origins of the Fantastic Creatures in the Qing Court Painting, the Manual of Sea Oddities
chapter 11. Huang Yong Ping and the Power of Zoomorphic Ambiguity
Glossary
Contributors
Index
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
Trading Places: An Introduction to Zoomorphism and Anthropomorphism in Chinese Art
chapter 1. The Taotie Motif on Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes
chapter 2. Labeling the Creatures: Some Problems in Han and Six Dynasties Iconography
chapter 3. Representing the Twelve Calendrical Animals as Beastly, Human, and Hybrid Beings in Medieval China
chapter 4. The Didactic Use of Animal Images in Southern Song Buddhism: The Case of Mount Baoding in Dazu, Sichuan
chapter 5. Evil Dragon, Golden Rodent, Sleek Hound: The Evolution of Soushan Tu Paintings in the Northern Song Period
chapter 6. Animals in Chinese Rebus Paintings
chapter 7. The Pictorial Form of a Zoomorphic Ecology: Dragons and Their Painters in Song and Southern Song China
chapter 8. The Political Animal: Metaphoric Rebellion in Zhao Yong’s Painting of Heavenly Horses
chapter 9. How the Giraffe Became a Qilin: Intercultural Signification in Ming Dynasty Arts
chapter 10. Weird Science: European Origins of the Fantastic Creatures in the Qing Court Painting, the Manual of Sea Oddities
chapter 11. Huang Yong Ping and the Power of Zoomorphic Ambiguity
Glossary
Contributors
Index
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