{"product_id":"9781789145328","title":"Facing China","description":"Author: Richard Vinograd\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781789145328\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Reaktion Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Sep 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 304\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFacing China\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of the portrait arts in China from the dynastic to the modern and contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography, and video. The book focuses on truth and memory in the portraiture process, from encounters between subject, portrait, and artist, to broader familial, social, and political arenas. It also examines the influence of location on portrait production, reception, and display, from tombs, ancestral shrines, temples, gardens, and palace halls to public and private spaces.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFeaturing one hundred fifty fine illustrations, with one hundred in colour, \u003ci\u003eFacing China\u003c\/i\u003e has much to say to specialists in the field as well as general readers interested in Chinese art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Vinograd's brilliant \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFacing China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e fearlessly renegotiates the challenging territory of the Chinese portrait. Through attentive analysis and compelling readings, he offers a rich new vision of the portrait as agent and interface, one capable of generating human bonds and identities across lineage, community, cultures, and time.\u0026amp;#x27;\u003cbr\u003e  Roberta Wue, associate professor, University of California, Irvine, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArt Worlds: Artists, Images, and Audiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFacing China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e casts a broader vision across time and space that fully reflects the author's erudition, traversing boundaries between the historical and the modern\/contemporary China and engaging cross-cultural issues beyond China to the global.\u0026amp;#x27;  Hui-shu Lee, professor of Chinese art, University of California, Los Angeles, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmpresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFacing China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, drawing on Vinograd's unsurpassed knowledge of the historical materials as well as his profoundly theoretical and creative approaches, is a brilliant and unprecedented study of portraits in Chinese visual culture.\u0026amp;#x27;  J. P. Park, June and Simon Li Professor in the History of Art and Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46857095446686,"sku":"ADS-9781789145328","price":79.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781789145328.jpg?v=1779154089","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781789145328","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}