Beauties in Qing Court Art: On Jiao Bingzhen’s <i>Album of Classical Ladies</i>

JIN Yingcun

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JIN Yingcun. Beauties in Qing Court Art: On Jiao Bingzhen’s Album of Classical Ladies[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(2): 246-261.

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JIN Yingcun. Beauties in Qing Court Art: On Jiao Bingzhen’s Album of Classical Ladies[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(2): 246-261.

JIN Yingcun. Beauties in Qing Court Art: On Jiao Bingzhen’s Album of Classical Ladies[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(2): 246-261.

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JIN Yingcun. Beauties in Qing Court Art: On Jiao Bingzhen’s Album of Classical Ladies[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2019, 2(2): 246-261.

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Beauties in Qing Court Art: On Jiao Bingzhen’s Album of Classical Ladies

JIN Yingcun

Shanghai University

Received Date: 2018-08-27
Publish Date: 2021-03-09

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Abstract

As a court painter in Qing dynasty under the Manchu’s authority, Jiao Bingzhen created the Album of Classical Ladies, with its highly decorative style, mainly to serve as a visual pleasure for the Qing’s court. Yet, besides the basic quality of female being an object for the male’s beholding as a visual enjoyment, which is common throughout Chinese court arts, this album also reflects crossing-cultural elements including the introduction of western painting techniques, the tradition of paintings of beautiful women generated from the southern literati class, together with the rich, bright surface preferred by the Manchu aesthetics. This essay intends to explore the causes of the combinations as well as the transition of meanings in painting of beautiful women from a cultural level to the court’s establishment, thus, to better identify the aesthetic and political functions of this artwork in specific context.
- Qing court,
- Manchu aesthetics,
- western techniques,
- painting of the feminine,
- literati culture,
- political authority

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