Violence Un-scrolled : Cultic and Ritual Emphases in Painting Guan Yu - article ; n°1 ; vol.58, pg 86-97
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2003
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This essay discusses a painting of the military general and deity Guan Yu. His depiction in the earliest extant court painting of Guan Yu is by Shang Xi, an artist at the Ming court during the early fifteenth century. Previous scholarship has dwelt largely on Guan Yu's significance as a figure of literature and drama, but it has said less concerning his appearance in the rich history of his visualization. This essay suggests that visual depictions of Guan Yu are significant aspects of his growing cult worship during the last centuries of imperial Chinese history. The analysis also proposes a political context for the notion of violent punishment shown in Shang Xi's painting. The essay therefore discusses fifteenth-century court formulations of punishment rituals, which expressed both the government's notion of its political legitimacy and its intense reactions to disloyalty, and it argues that these too provide means to interpret the painting's significance for an early Ming audience.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
