Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. Models and Patterns
1 The Emergence of Dynastic Time in Chinese Art
2 Reconfiguring the World. The First Emperor's Art Projects
3 Conflicting Temporalities Heaven's Mandate and Its Antitheses
Part Two Politics and Religion
4 Miraculous Icons and Dynastic Time. Narrating Buddhist Images in Medieval China
5 Landscape and Dynastic Power. Competing Yue
Part Three Past and Present
6 Art History and Dynastic Time. Reading Zhang Yanyuan
7 Blind Spots of Dynastic Time. The Case of the Liao
8 Returning to the Past. Fugu and Dynastic Time
Part Four Rupture and Revolution
9 Art of Absence. Remnant Subject and Post-dynastic Temporality
10 End as Beginning. Dynastic Time and Revolution
Conclusion. Dynastic Time and Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Photo and Illustration Credits
A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1952-2021