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Dimensions of place: Map, itinerary,...

Stuer, Catherine.

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Dimensions of place: Map, itinerary, and trace in images of Nanjing.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Dimensions of place: Map, itinerary, and trace in images of Nanjing./
作者:	Stuer, Catherine.
面頁冊數:	465 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-01A(E).
標題:	Art history. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3526362
ISBN:	9781267602367

Dimensions of place: Map, itinerary, and trace in images of Nanjing.
Stuer, Catherine.

Dimensions of place: Map, itinerary, and trace in images of Nanjing. - 465 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2012.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation explores the meanings and uses of visual representations of Nanjing by asking of three groups of images how they construe this city as place. In the first instance, this involves rethinking disciplinary assumptions about the organization of the field of image-making in China, and secondly, it requires a critical reassessment of theorizations of place-representation in contemporary discourse. As nine-time imperial capital, Nanjing figures in Chinese history as a site of highly contested identities, and its rich archive of visual and textual sources affords a long-term perspective on changing representations of the city. I analyze woodblock-printed, painted and photographic images to unpack the dynamic appropriation of this city by different agents over time, and parse the various visual strategies they bring into play. By insisting on a cross-historical analysis of such visual strategies in their relation to literary and geohistorical practices, this study invites a reassessment of theoretical models applied to place-representation in pre- and non-modern cultures. Ineluctably grounded in its primary, morally ambiguous identity as capital of the Six Dynasties, the ongoing engagement of image-making of the city with Nanjing's paradigmatic identity as city of past traces places the cultural notion of guji, or 'footprint, trace of the past' front and center in my analysis. Etymologically grounded in indexical reference to past times, this notion has remained elusive as a subject of present-day explication and theorization, though it is widely known to be prevalent in geocultural and literary representation since at least the 8th century.

ISBN: 9781267602367Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122701
Art history.

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520 $a This dissertation explores the meanings and uses of visual representations of Nanjing by asking of three groups of images how they construe this city as place. In the first instance, this involves rethinking disciplinary assumptions about the organization of the field of image-making in China, and secondly, it requires a critical reassessment of theorizations of place-representation in contemporary discourse. As nine-time imperial capital, Nanjing figures in Chinese history as a site of highly contested identities, and its rich archive of visual and textual sources affords a long-term perspective on changing representations of the city. I analyze woodblock-printed, painted and photographic images to unpack the dynamic appropriation of this city by different agents over time, and parse the various visual strategies they bring into play. By insisting on a cross-historical analysis of such visual strategies in their relation to literary and geohistorical practices, this study invites a reassessment of theoretical models applied to place-representation in pre- and non-modern cultures. Ineluctably grounded in its primary, morally ambiguous identity as capital of the Six Dynasties, the ongoing engagement of image-making of the city with Nanjing's paradigmatic identity as city of past traces places the cultural notion of guji, or 'footprint, trace of the past' front and center in my analysis. Etymologically grounded in indexical reference to past times, this notion has remained elusive as a subject of present-day explication and theorization, though it is widely known to be prevalent in geocultural and literary representation since at least the 8th century.
520 $a To reflect critically on related conceptualizations of place-representation from the perspective of a past, non-modern sphere of cultural production, I have organized my inquiry in a two-step discussion. In the first part, I trace the contours of 'place' as subject of visual representation, first broadly within the Chinese cultural context, and then with regard to Nanjing in particular. I do so by inspecting Chinese aesthetic and geotextual records for emic constructions of place as subject and field of representation, and proceed from there to reflect critically on the development of scholarship on literary and visual representations of Nanjing. Two intermittent excursuses introduce theorizations of grounding concepts into the discussion as it unfolds. Anticipating central themes in the case-studies that form the latter part of the dissertation, I examine in the first part both the applicability of contemporary spatial theory's conceptualizations of place to the Chinese case, and the influence of Western memory discourse on theorizations of the 'trace of the past'. The chapters of the second part show how two prototypical modes of visual representations of place that contemporary theorists associate with modern and pre-modern spatial articulation in fact do not retain stable positions of difference or opposition, but instead intersect at different moments to form various 'hybrid' visual articulations of Nanjing as a temporally and spatially coherent place.
520 $a These three chapters trace the emergence of new visual forms in response to axial events in the formation of Nanjing's identity as place. Together, they allow observing continuities and discontinuities in constructions of the city across varying modes and media of visual representation. The first chapter centers on the emergence of mapped representations of the city that retrospectively construe Nanjing's past identity as capital of the Six Dynasties. The second addresses the emergence of serial landscape representations of Nanjing in response to the establishment of Nanjing as capital of the new Ming dynasty. The third chapter looks at representations that emerge following the moment when transmitted practices of image-making, in map and landscape form, are declared epistemologically defunct in the city's official history compiled in 1811. While each of these 'moments' follows a series of responses that are directly or indirectly tied to that initial event, the distinction between them remains artificial. Just as the city's Six Dynasties' identity remains fundamental throughout Nanjing's history, the essential retrospective vision inherent to its image-making ensures continued inter-reference between such moments as distinguished here. The question how the grounding of the city's memory marked by its traces relates to the essential accumulative nature of the geocultural institution of guji becomes crucial to understanding how these images operate in the articulation of identity in place. The narrative of the second part of the dissertation maps out a historical trajectory by which place-representation of this city is increasingly appropriated in the articulation of personal identity. In the coda to these case-studies, I follow 19th-century representations with a photographic project undertaken a century later during the Republican era, to reflect on my findings by raising the question whether and how the confrontation with colonial and modern contexts repositions the status of such traces of the past as medium of place-representation. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
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