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Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
New York: Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Chinese poetry has a long history of interaction with the visual
arts. Classical aesthetic thought held that painting, calligraphy,
and poetry were cross-fertilizing and mutually enriching. What
happened when the Chinese poetic tradition encountered photography,
a transformative technology and presumably realistic medium that
reshaped seeing and representing the world? Shengqing Wu explores
how the new medium of photography was transformed by Chinese
aesthetic culture. She details the complex negotiations between
poetry and photography in the late Qing and early Republican eras,
examining the ways traditional textual forms collaborated with the
new visual culture. Drawing on extensive archival research into
illustrated magazines, poetry collections, and vintage photographs,
Photo Poetics analyzes a wide range of practices and
genres, including self-representation in portrait photography;
gifts of inscribed photographs; mass-media circulation of images of
beautiful women; and photography of ghosts, immortals, and imagined
landscapes. Wu argues that the Chinese lyrical tradition provided
rich resources for artistic creativity, self-expression, and
embodied experience in the face of an increasingly technological
and image-oriented society. An interdisciplinary study spanning
literary studies, visual culture, and media history, Photo
Poetics is an original account of media culture in early
twentieth-century China and the formation of Chinese literary and
visual modernities.