Verfasst von:	Peng, Ying-chen [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Artful subversion
Titelzusatz:	Empress Dowager Cixi's image making
Verf.angabe:	Ying-chen Peng
Verlagsort:	New Haven ; London
Verlag:	Yale University Press
E-Jahr:	2023
Jahr:	[2023]
Umfang:	IX, 196 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
ISBN:	978-0-300-26343-5
Abstract:	This revelatory book shows how the influential and controversial Empress Dowager Cixi used art and architecture to establish her authority Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), who ruled China from 1861 until her death in 1908, is a subject of fascination and controversy, at turns vilified for her political maneuvering and admired for modernizing China. In addition to being an astute politician, she was an earnest art patron, and this beautifully illustrated book explores a wide range of objects, revealing how the empress dowager used art and architecture to solidify her rule. Cixi's art commissions were innovative in the way that they unified two distant conceptions of gender in China at the time, demonstrating her strength and wisdom as a monarch while highlighting her identity as a woman and mother. Artful Subversion examines commissioned works, including portrait paintings and photographs, ceramics, fashion, architecture, and garden design, as well as work Cixi created, such as painting and calligraphy. The book is a compelling study of how a powerful matriarch at once subverted and upheld the Qing imperial patriarchy
URL:	Cover: http://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738303330303236333433357C7C434F50.jpg?sq=1
Schlagwörter:	(p)Qing Cixi <China, Regentin>    / (g)China    / (s)Kunst    / (s)Mäzenatentum    / (z)Geschichte 1861-1908
Sprache:	eng
Sach-SW:	ART019010
	Asian history
	Asiatische Geschichte
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty
	Biografien: Könige und Königinnen
	Biography: royalty
	DES003000
	Decorative arts
	Dekorative Kunst
	HISTORY / Asia / China
	Industrial / commercial art & design
	Kunstgeschichte
	Oriental art
Geograph. SW:	China
	China
K10plus-PPN:	1835029396