Writing in the early nineteenth century, the French traveler and
cleric Abbe Huc exclaimed: "There is, perhaps, not a people in the
world who carry so far their taste and passion for theatrical
entertainments as the Chinese." Although the spectacle of this
theater is well known, with its colorful costumes, props, and face
painting, the extent to which opera was favored in Chinese
pictorial and decorative motifs across the full spectrum of visual
media - from courtly scroll paintings, popular New Year prints,
illustrated woodblock books, and painted fans to carved utensils,
ceramics, textiles, and dioramas-will surprise many. As the first
comprehensive publication in English on the subject, Performing
Images is not only a major interdisciplinary contribution to
existing scholarship - featuring eight new essays by experts in the
fields of traditional and modern Chinese literature, art, material
culture, and history - but also a visual spectacle in its own
right. A companion volume to the exhibition of the same name at the
Smart Museum of Art, Performing Images contains more than one
hundred color reproductions and over eighty illustrated catalogue
entries. Together, text and image offer new insight into
traditional Chinese culture, visual arts, and theater, and reveal
how Chinese visual and performing traditions were aesthetically,
ritually, and commercially intertwined.
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