Facing China

Truth and Memory in Portraiture

Richard Vinograd

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Reaktion Books
01 September 2022

Oriental art; Portraits in art

Facing China 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.

Featuring one hundred fifty fine illustrations, with one hundred in colour, Facing China has much to say to specialists in the field as well as general readers interested in Chinese art.

'Vinograd’s brilliant Facing China 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.'

– Roberta Wue, associate professor, University of California, Irvine, author of Art Worlds: Artists, Images, and Audiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai

'Facing China 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.' – Hui-shu Lee, professor of Chinese art, University of California, Los Angeles, author of Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China

'Facing China, 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.' – J. P. Park, June and Simon Li Professor in the History of Art and Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford

By: Richard Vinograd
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 190mm,
ISBN: 9781789145328
ISBN 10: 1789145325
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 September 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Vinograd is Christensen Fund Professor in Asian Art in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of many books including Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang (2018).

Reviews for Facing China: Truth and Memory in Portraiture

Facing China 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. --Hui-shu Lee, professor of Chinese art, University of California, Los Angeles, author of Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China