Martin J Powers

Biographic Data

ID1131224
NAMEMartin J Powers
GIVEN NAMESMartin J
FAMILY NAMEPowers
SIGNATUREPOWERS M J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS14
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX2

  • New Exhibition Examines the Social Life of Bronzes Through the Centuries

    Open AccessMartin J Powers, Martin PowersARTICLEEarly China2018

    This is a short review of the “Mirroring China's Past” exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago (February 25th–May 13th, 2018). For reference, the exhibition catalog is: Tao Wang 汪涛 et al. Mirroring China's Past: Emperors, Scholars, and Their Bronzes [吉金鑒古]. The Art Institute of Chicago, 2018. Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London

  • The Temporal Logic of Citation in Chinese Painting

    Open AccessMartin J PowersARTICLEArt History2014

    It is heuristically valuable to distinguish between citation and other forms of repetition, such as copying, imitating, or emulating. The characteristic of citation is simultaneous reference to two or more incompatible styles in open opposition to the unified styles required for replication. This requieres the insight that all styles are poducts of a particular historical moment. Naturalistic styles, then, become just another kind of period style…

  • Scapegoating During a Time of Crisis

    Open AccessMicheal O’flynn, Lee F Monaghan et al.ARTICLESociology2014Cited by: 10References: 23

    Focusing upon scapegoating in post-crash Ireland, this article considers a pervasive political process that is protective of powerful interests and the status quo following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Drawing from group conflict theory and framing analysis as part of a broader critical realist take on society, we consider how blame has been placed on myriad targets, ranging from a collective 'we who went a bit mad with borrowing' to more sp…

  • Pattern and Person

    Open AccessMartin J PowersBOOKPattern and Person2006

  • Pattern and Person

    Martin J PowersBOOKPattern and Person2006

    In Classical China, crafted artefacts offered a material substrate for abstract thought as graphic paradigms for social relationships. Focusing on the 5th to 2nd Centuries B.C., Martin Powers explores how these paradigms continued to inform social thought long after the material substrate had been abandoned. In this detailed study, the author makes the claim that artefacts are never neutral: as a distinctive possession, each object - through the …

  • Yi’nan

    Martin J Powers, Di LuoCHAPTER2003

  • Mi xian

    Martin J Powers, Yun-chen LuCHAPTER2003

  • The Figure in the Carpet

    Martin J PowersARTICLEMonumenta Serica1995

    L'auteur etudie plusieurs sources litteraires chinoises anciennes de la periode des Royaumes Combattants afin d'illustrer et de tenter d'elucider un certain nombre de questions a propos de la signification des motifs decoratifs ornant les objets datant des dynasties Zhou

  • Art and Political Expression in Early China

    Lothar Von Falkenhausen, Martin J PowersARTICLEHarvard Journal of Asiatic Studies1995

  • Art and Political Expression in Early China.

    Chun-Shu Chang, Chun‐shu Chang et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1993

  • Superfluous Things

    Martin J Powers, Craig ClunasARTICLEThe American Historical Review1993

  • Artistic Taste, the Economy and the Social Order in Former Han China

    Open AccessMartin J PowersARTICLEArt History1986Cited by: 1

  • Pictorial Art and Its Public in Early Imperial China

    Open AccessMartin J PowersARTICLEArt History1984Cited by: 3