Portraiture in the Arts of China
A special issue of Arts (ISSN 2076-0752).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2025 | Viewed by 127
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Arts of dynastic, modern and contemporary China; arts of the Mongol world
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
How were subjectivities constructed in the arts of early modern, modern, and contemporary China? What role did portraiture play in the process of identity formation during this time? In what ways did this artistic genre contribute to creating different notions of gender, class, and ethnicity? While much has been written about how landscape painting and calligraphy contributed to creating notions of subjectivity, portraiture remains an understudied genre in the arts of China. This Special Issue seeks to address this lacuna by introducing new research on portraiture of early modern, modern, and contemporary China, and on the artists, patrons, and collectors that were involved in their production, reception, and circulation.
Portraits have long been studied as documents or biographies of a person that once existed. Without denying the capacity of a portrait to index a living person, as guest editors we wish to address the varied performative elements that portraits displayed in the arts of China. In the context of this Special Edition, portraiture is therefore defined as a verbal, musical, performative, and/or visual work that constructs a subject in art. Objects and artifacts such as paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, ceramics, jewelry, and currency; designed spaces including gardens and architectural sites; literary works, musical compositions, and performances may also be deemed authoritative media for the making of subjectivities in portraiture.
Prof. Dr. Shane McCausland
Dr. Mariana Zegianini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- China
- art
- visual culture
- portraiture
- gender
- ethnicity
- subjectivity
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