The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting

by Wu Hung

This book contemplates a large problem: what is a traditional Chinese painting? Wu Hung answers this question through a comprehensive analysis of the screen, a major format and a popular pictorial motif in traditional China. The Double Screen offers a powerful non-Western perspective on diverse artistic and cultural genres, from portraiture and pictorial narratives to voyeurism and masquerade.

Genres: Art, China, Art History

413 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 24, 2013

Reviews

[Lilian Manning · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice overlook of screens in Chinese painting. Should definitely read to learn more about that. Romanticism being taken out of painting depicting theater I perhaps disagree with.