Production,Image and Audience:the Spatial Imagination of Jin Ping Mei Illustrations in Ming and Qing Dynasties
This paper regards Jin Ping Mei illustrations which originally attached to novel as the core visual material.I select two typical editions including Xinke Xiuxiang Piping Jin Ping Mei(Chongzhen edition)and Qinggong Zhenbao Bimei Tu(Qianlong edition),in order to describe illustrations'potential to reconstruct the spatial connotations of text with iconographic imagination.Referring to the analytical framework of visual culture theory,through the path of"Production-Image-Audience",the research derives from the visual schema of productive perspective to the specific analysis of images,and compares the system of spatial representation of two versions in viewpoint selection,form construction and obejctscape respectively.And then emerging the perspective of audience which further explores the different projection of spatial imagination of two versions while facing different social classes.That is,the the version of Ming Dynasty embodies the favor of Chinese traditional garden of literati,while the the version of Qing Dynasty represents the focus on interior living environment of dominator.
Jin Ping Mei illustrationsQinggong Zhenbao Bimei Tuvisualityvisual culture
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