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- Title
Colophons and Cultural Biography: Episodes from the Life of "The Ear Picker."
- Authors
Lee, De-Nin D.
- Abstract
This article examines the multiple meanings depicted by the hand-scroll painting "The Ear Picker," by Southern Tang court painter Wang Qihan. The analysis was conducted by adopting the strategy of cultural biography and examining colophons to determine how three sets of previous viewers constructed the significance of the hand-scroll painting. The inscriptions that frame the painting, together with three ostensibly imperial Northern Song seals, were patently forged, poor imitations of the slender-gold calligraphy of Song Emperor Huizong.
- Subjects
PAINTING; CHINESE scrolls; WANG Qihan; COLOPHONS; IMPRINTS (Publishers' &; printers' statements); CULTURE
- Publication
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2006, Vol 126, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
0003-0279
- Publication type
Article