Product Description

In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products

and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the

collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to

a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears;

its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social

activities and cultural conventions neglected.

A screen occupies a space and divides it, supplies an ideal surface for

painting, and has been a favorite pictorial image in Chinese art since

antiquity. Wu Hung undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the screen,

which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all three

at once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinese

painters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art.

The Double Screen provides a powerful non-Western perspective on

issues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism,

masquerade, and political rhetoric. It will be invaluable to anyone

interested in the history of art and Asian studies.

巫鸿（Wu Hung）早年任职于故宫博物院书画组、金石组，获中央美术学院美术史系硕士。1987年获哈佛大学美术史与人类学双重博士学位，后在该校美术史系任教，1994年获终身教授职位。同年受聘主持芝加哥大学亚洲艺术的教学、研究项目，执“斯德本特殊贡献教授”讲席，2002年建立东亚艺术研究中心并任主任。

其著作《武梁祠：中国古代画像艺术的思想性》获1989年全美亚洲学年会最佳著作奖（李文森奖）；《中国古代美术和建筑中的纪念碑性》获评1996年杰出学术出版物，被列为20世纪90年代最有意义的艺术学著作之一；《重屏：中国绘画中的媒介与表现》获全美最佳美术史著作提名。参与编写《中国绘画三千年》（1997）、《剑桥中国先秦史》（1999）等。多次回国客座讲学，发起“汉唐之间”中国古代美术史、考古学研究系列国际讨论会，并主编三册论文集。

近年致力于中国现当代艺术的研究与国际交流。策划展览《瞬间：90年代末的中国实验艺术》（1998）、《在中国展览实验艺术》（2000）、《重新解读：中国实验展览艺术十年（1990-2000）——首届广州当代艺术三年展》（2004）和《“美”的协商》（2005）等，并编撰有关专著。所培养的学生现在美国各知名学府执中国美术史教席。