Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire - Gender and Interiority in Chinese Painting and Poetry

Winner of the 2020 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize.

In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard examines the writing of interiority in paintings of women, considering correspondences to examples of erotic poetry and how such works address the concerns of artists, patrons, and viewers.

About the author

Lara C. W. Blanchard, Ph.D. (2001), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is Luce Professor of East Asian Art at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She has published articles on gender and Chinese art from the Song to Ming dynasties.

Product details

• Authors: Lara C W Blanchard, Lara C. W. Blanchard
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2018
• EAN: 9789004362789
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36278-9
• No. of pages: 334
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 780 g
• Series: Women and Gender in China Stud
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)