Jeffrey Moser
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Moser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Moser |
| SIGNATURE | MOSER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cauldron, Copper, Cash
Medieval Chinese thinkers conceptualized ancient bronzes in anthropocentric terms—as mute, inert objects that required the engagement of a perspicacious human subject for their value to become apparent. They also regarded bronzes as animate things that had the capacity to act independently of direct human manipulation, and they situated bronzes within frameworks of material vitalism that parallel many aspects of the “new materialism” associated w…
Painting Architecture
Architecture occupies an unsettled place in the history of Chinese painting. The celebration of the amateur ideal that began in the Song dynasty and accelerated in the centuries that followed left the practitioners of architectural painting in an uneasy position. The specialized tools and techniques used to produce the precise lines and accurate proportions that defined the genre marked it, more than any other, as a domain of professional craft. …
Fungible Things
The Emotive Object in Medieval China
This article considers the emotional status of grave goods in medieval China. Its purpose is twofold. First, the author investigates the conceptual structures available for interpreting the emotional processes involved in medieval burials. He argues that it is possible, and indeed productive, to read grave goods as traces of emotional operations and, in so doing, to articulate a dimension of the embodied processes that structured and motivated wi…
Liquidity, Technicity, and the Predictive Turn in Chinese Ceramics
October 01 2017 Liquidity, Technicity, and the Predictive Turn in Chinese Ceramics Jeffrey Moser Jeffrey Moser Jeffrey Moser is Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. His research focuses on the artistic and intellectual history of China during the Song-Yuan era (tenth to fourteenth centuries CE). His publications include articles in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, and…
One Land of Many Places
One Land of Many Places:The Integration of Local Culture in Southern Song Geographies Jeffrey Moser Recent historiography on the Southern Song has been dominated by two related questions. The first is the degree to which localism guided the social and literary agendas of Southern Song literati.1 The second is the extent to which these literati constituted a supra-political national community with a shared culture and common worldview.2 The underl…
One Land of Many Places
One Land of Many Places:The Integration of Local Culture in Southern Song Geographies Jeffrey Moser Recent historiography on the Southern Song has been dominated by two related questions. The first is the degree to which localism guided the social and literary agendas of Southern Song literati.1 The second is the extent to which these literati constituted a supra-political national community with a shared culture and common worldview.2 The underl…
One Land of Many Places
One Land of Many Places:The Integration of Local Culture in Southern Song Geographies Jeffrey Moser Recent historiography on the Southern Song has been dominated by two related questions. The first is the degree to which localism guided the social and literary agendas of Southern Song literati.1 The second is the extent to which these literati constituted a supra-political national community with a shared culture and common worldview.2 The underl…
Liquidity, Technicity, and the Predictive Turn in Chinese Ceramics
October 01 2017 Liquidity, Technicity, and the Predictive Turn in Chinese Ceramics Jeffrey Moser Jeffrey Moser Jeffrey Moser is Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. His research focuses on the artistic and intellectual history of China during the Song-Yuan era (tenth to fourteenth centuries CE). His publications include articles in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, and…
The Emotive Object in Medieval China
This article considers the emotional status of grave goods in medieval China. Its purpose is twofold. First, the author investigates the conceptual structures available for interpreting the emotional processes involved in medieval burials. He argues that it is possible, and indeed productive, to read grave goods as traces of emotional operations and, in so doing, to articulate a dimension of the embodied processes that structured and motivated wi…
Fungible Things
Cauldron, Copper, Cash
Medieval Chinese thinkers conceptualized ancient bronzes in anthropocentric terms—as mute, inert objects that required the engagement of a perspicacious human subject for their value to become apparent. They also regarded bronzes as animate things that had the capacity to act independently of direct human manipulation, and they situated bronzes within frameworks of material vitalism that parallel many aspects of the “new materialism” associated w…
Painting Architecture
Architecture occupies an unsettled place in the history of Chinese painting. The celebration of the amateur ideal that began in the Song dynasty and accelerated in the centuries that followed left the practitioners of architectural painting in an uneasy position. The specialized tools and techniques used to produce the precise lines and accurate proportions that defined the genre marked it, more than any other, as a domain of professional craft. …
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