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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Photo Poetics By Professor Shengqing Wu
DESCRIPTION:Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture (2020\, Columbia University Press) \n  \na book talk by Professor Shengqing Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) \n  \nModerated by: Ying Qian (Assistant Professor in Chinese cinema and media\, EALAC\, Columbia) \n  \nWith discussion from: Alexander Alberro (Virginia Bloedel Wright ’51 Professor of Art History\, Barnard) \n  \nOnline event via zoom: \nNov. 19th (Fri) at 10am (EST) \nTo register\, please visit: https://weai.columbia.edu/events/photo-poetics-chinese-lyricism-and-modern-media-culture \n  \nSponsor: WEAI \nCo-sponsor: EALAC\, Center for Comparative Media. \n  \nAbout the book  \n  \nThe following is copied from the website of Columbia University Press. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/photo-poetics/9780231192217 \n  \nChinese poetry has a long history of interaction with the visual arts. Classical aesthetic thought held that painting\, calligraphy\, and poetry were cross-fertilizing and mutually enriching. What happened when the Chinese poetic tradition encountered photography\, a transformative technology and presumably realistic medium that reshaped seeing and representing the world? \nShengqing Wu explores how the new medium of photography was transformed by Chinese aesthetic culture. She details the complex negotiations between poetry and photography in the late Qing and early Republican eras\, examining the ways traditional textual forms collaborated with the new visual culture. Drawing on extensive archival research into illustrated magazines\, poetry collections\, and vintage photographs\, Photo Poetics analyzes a wide range of practices and genres\, including self-representation in portrait photography; gifts of inscribed photographs; mass-media circulation of images of beautiful women; and photography of ghosts\, immortals\, and imagined landscapes. Wu argues that the Chinese lyrical tradition provided rich resources for artistic creativity\, self-expression\, and embodied experience in the face of an increasingly technological and image-oriented society. An interdisciplinary study spanning literary studies\, visual culture\, and media history\, Photo Poetics is an original account of media culture in early twentieth-century China and the formation of Chinese literary and visual modernities. \n  \nSpeaker Bio: \n  \nShengqing Wu is professor of Chinese literature at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is the author of Modern Archaics: Continuity and Innovation in the Chinese Lyric Tradition\, 1900–1937 (2013). \n  \nSpeaker photo (for publicity use) \nhttps://photographyofchina.com/blog/shengqing-wu-photo-poetics \n  \n
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