Juliane Noth, "Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting" (Harvard UP, 2022)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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In the Trans-Intermediate Gap
There's a very interesting case in this chapter where we're talking about a painting of a building that seems very idyllic. In fact you have a photo that you put this painting in conversation with so could you tell us about this case and what it reveals? The same photograph reproduced two times is embedded in a travelogue by vidafu who is well known as modernist writer but um actually he wrote many travelogues. It describes an ancient building which may in the future be kind of left behind or destroyed by modernization of of infrastructureso there's the sense of looking at something which will pass soon.
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