Jennifer Purtle
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Purtle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Purtle |
| SIGNATURE | PURTLE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9141-8511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Building a pagoda mobilizes durable materials into architectonic form. But a pagoda may also incorporate likenesses of images and objects wrought in ephemeral materials, thus becoming a nexus of textual, pictorial, and formal transfer and intermedial preservation. This essay examines how, in the Zhenguo pagoda 鎮國塔 (lit. “Defender of the State Pagoda”) at the Kaiyuan temple in Quanzhou, Fujian, rock—covered with the imagery of paper (and other fug…
Salvaging Meaning
This essay argues that expatriate residents of medieval Quanzhou recycled objects to create meaning across cultures. By tracing the mobility of imagery, iconography, and decorative idioms across belief structures, this essay demonstrates how the salvaging of artifacts between religions literally built a local visual and religious culture from available parts
Looking at Viewers
Double Take
In order to complicate the notion of a visual world universally constituted by light, this article undertakes an archaeology of light as a medium in China, where the discoveries of the polymath Mo Di 墨翟 (ca.470-ca.391 BCE) established different epistemological foundations for the study of light roughly a century before the Optica (Optics) of the Greek mathematician Euclid (mid-4th-mid-3rd century BCE).Indeed, many traditions of optical media, inc…
The Mongol Century
Reviewed by: The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271–1368 by Shane McCausland Jennifer Purtle Shane McCausland. The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271–1368. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015. Pp. 296, 159 color illustrations. $65.00 (cloth). ISBN 978–0-8248–5145-3. Richly illustrated, The Mongol Century synthesizes twenty years of transformative research on the art of the Mongol-Yuan dynasty that has art…
Ways of Perceiving Late Imperial Chinese Art
The Far Side
This chapter begins to understand the fast, fluid, and far-reaching currents of the transmission of European medieval art, it studies objects made by and/or for expatriate Europeans resident in China under Mongol rule. A unique part of Yuan visual culture, European ways of making and seeing objects existed in Sino-Mongol contexts - namely for court, merchants and the Church - like those of Europe. Rather, by examining the cases of a French goldsm…
Scopic Frames
Practices, technologies, and instruments of vision powerfully shape visual fields. The transitory nature of visual practices, the changing nature of technology, and the potentially ephemeral nature of the moment of vision mediated by optical devices make it difficult to understand how people saw, how they perceived technologies of vision, and how they saw with the aid of optical devices. More elusive still is the constellation of visual practices…
Even Exchange
Craig Clunas' Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470–1559 (University of Hawai'i Press [Honolulu, 2004], 223 pp.; hardcover 55.00; ISBN 0-8248-2772-4) situates its novel approach to writing a single artist monograph with respect to Sinological and art-historical approaches to the history of Chinese art. In the introduction, Clunas problematizes what constitutes data for a Sinological approach to the writing of Chinese art history (8…
Even Exchange
Craig Clunas' Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470–1559 (University of Hawai'i Press [Honolulu, 2004], 223 pp.; hardcover 55.00; ISBN 0-8248-2772-4) situates its novel approach to writing a single artist monograph with respect to Sinological and art-historical approaches to the history of Chinese art. In the introduction, Clunas problematizes what constitutes data for a Sinological approach to the writing of Chinese art history (8…
Even Exchange
Craig Clunas' Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470–1559 (University of Hawai'i Press [Honolulu, 2004], 223 pp.; hardcover 55.00; ISBN 0-8248-2772-4) situates its novel approach to writing a single artist monograph with respect to Sinological and art-historical approaches to the history of Chinese art. In the introduction, Clunas problematizes what constitutes data for a Sinological approach to the writing of Chinese art history (8…
Scopic Frames
Practices, technologies, and instruments of vision powerfully shape visual fields. The transitory nature of visual practices, the changing nature of technology, and the potentially ephemeral nature of the moment of vision mediated by optical devices make it difficult to understand how people saw, how they perceived technologies of vision, and how they saw with the aid of optical devices. More elusive still is the constellation of visual practices…
The Far Side
This chapter begins to understand the fast, fluid, and far-reaching currents of the transmission of European medieval art, it studies objects made by and/or for expatriate Europeans resident in China under Mongol rule. A unique part of Yuan visual culture, European ways of making and seeing objects existed in Sino-Mongol contexts - namely for court, merchants and the Church - like those of Europe. Rather, by examining the cases of a French goldsm…
Ways of Perceiving Late Imperial Chinese Art
The Mongol Century
Reviewed by: The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271–1368 by Shane McCausland Jennifer Purtle Shane McCausland. The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271–1368. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015. Pp. 296, 159 color illustrations. $65.00 (cloth). ISBN 978–0-8248–5145-3. Richly illustrated, The Mongol Century synthesizes twenty years of transformative research on the art of the Mongol-Yuan dynasty that has art…
Looking at Viewers
Double Take
In order to complicate the notion of a visual world universally constituted by light, this article undertakes an archaeology of light as a medium in China, where the discoveries of the polymath Mo Di 墨翟 (ca.470-ca.391 BCE) established different epistemological foundations for the study of light roughly a century before the Optica (Optics) of the Greek mathematician Euclid (mid-4th-mid-3rd century BCE).Indeed, many traditions of optical media, inc…
Salvaging Meaning
This essay argues that expatriate residents of medieval Quanzhou recycled objects to create meaning across cultures. By tracing the mobility of imagery, iconography, and decorative idioms across belief structures, this essay demonstrates how the salvaging of artifacts between religions literally built a local visual and religious culture from available parts
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Building a pagoda mobilizes durable materials into architectonic form. But a pagoda may also incorporate likenesses of images and objects wrought in ephemeral materials, thus becoming a nexus of textual, pictorial, and formal transfer and intermedial preservation. This essay examines how, in the Zhenguo pagoda 鎮國塔 (lit. “Defender of the State Pagoda”) at the Kaiyuan temple in Quanzhou, Fujian, rock—covered with the imagery of paper (and other fug…
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