Redefining Female Talent: Chinese Women Artists in the National and Global Art Worlds, 1900s - 1970s

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dc.contributor.advisorJudge, Joan
dc.creatorSung, Doris Ha Lin
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-25T14:11:23Z
dc.date.available2016-11-25T14:11:23Z
dc.date.copyright2016-06-23
dc.date.issued2016-11-25
dc.date.updated2016-11-25T14:11:23Z
dc.degree.disciplineHumanities
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the art practices of three generations of Chinese women who were active between the 1900s and the 1970s. Its conceptual focus is on the reassessment of female talent and virtue, a moralized dichotomy that had been used to frame womens social practices and cultural production for centuries in China. The study opens in the period when female poetic practice was harshly vilified by reformists of the late Qing era (1890s-1911). It questions why womens art production was not directly condemned and examines how womens increasingly public displays of artistic talent were legitimized through the invocation of long-standing familial norms, the official sanction of new education, and the formulation of various nationalist agendas. Most importantly, this study demonstrates how women artists joined female writers, educators, and political figures in redefining gender possibilities in the early Republican period. Women artists discussed in this study practiced both Chinese-style and Western-style art. It examines their participation in several different public contexts, including art education, exhibitions, art societies, and philanthropic organizations. Representatives of the first generation, Wu Xingfen (1853-1930) and Jin Taotao (1884-1939), advanced the artistic legacy of their predecessors, the women of the boudoir (guixiu), while at the same time expanding the paradigm of traditional womens art practices. In addition to their emerging visibility in the local art world, they also exhibited works in international expositions, engaged with foreign concessions, and traveled abroad. Members of the Chinese Womens Society of Calligraphy and Painting (Zhongguo nzi shuhuahui) who represent the second generation, embraced new institutional possibilities by studying, teaching, and forming a collective to reaffirm womens position in the traditional-style art milieu. Pan Yuliang (1895-1977) and her cohort of Western-style artists who formed the third generation, contributed to modern art reform in China in the early twentieth century. Pans distinct life trajectory and subsequent career in Paris illuminate the ways race and gender figured in transcultural artistic representations from the 1940s to the 1970s. These artists public presence in both the national and global art worlds redefined and repurposed female talent as both a patriotic virtue, and new expressions of gender subjectivities.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/32742
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectAsian studies
dc.subject.keywordsChinese art
dc.subject.keywordsWomen artists
dc.subject.keywordsChinese painting
dc.subject.keywordsCalligraphy
dc.subject.keywordsGuohua
dc.subject.keywordsOil painting
dc.subject.keywordsArt education
dc.subject.keywordsLate Qing
dc.subject.keywordsEarly Republican period
dc.subject.keywordsChina
dc.subject.keywordsShanghai
dc.subject.keywordsBeijing
dc.subject.keywordsFrance
dc.subject.keywordsParis
dc.subject.keywordsLyon
dc.subject.keywordsItaly
dc.subject.keywordsRome
dc.subject.keywordsJapan
dc.subject.keywordsTokyo
dc.subject.keywordsFemale talent
dc.subject.keywordsFemale virtue
dc.subject.keywordsNationalism
dc.subject.keywordsGlobal art world
dc.subject.keywordsArt market
dc.subject.keywordsArt prices
dc.subject.keywordsWorld expositions
dc.subject.keywordsArt exhibitions
dc.subject.keywordsPeriodicals
dc.subject.keywordsNewspapers
dc.subject.keywordsArt magazines
dc.subject.keywordsWomen’s journals
dc.subject.keywordsPhotography
dc.subject.keywordsWu Xingfen
dc.subject.keywordsWu Shujuan
dc.subject.keywordsJin Taotao
dc.subject.keywordsJin Zhang
dc.subject.keywordsFeng Wenfeng
dc.subject.keywordsLi Qiujun
dc.subject.keywordsYang Xuejiu
dc.subject.keywordsHe Xiangning
dc.subject.keywordsWu Qingxia
dc.subject.keywordsPan Yuliang
dc.subject.keywordsPan Yu-lin
dc.subject.keywordsGuan Zilan
dc.subject.keywordsSuzanne Valadon
dc.subject.keywordsÉmilie Charmy
dc.subject.keywordsChang Yu
dc.subject.keywordsSanyu
dc.subject.keywordsZhao Wuji
dc.subject.keywordsZao Wou-ki
dc.subject.keywordsLéonard Tsuguharu Foujita
dc.subject.keywordsFujita Tsuguharu
dc.titleRedefining Female Talent: Chinese Women Artists in the National and Global Art Worlds, 1900s - 1970s
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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