书名：Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China / 描绘真形：传统中国的道教视觉文化
定价：385.0
ISBN：9780674504288
作者：Shih-shan Susan Huang
版次：1
出版时间：2015-01

内容提要：
书名：Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China / 描绘真形：传统中国的道教视觉文化
作者：Shih-shan Susan Huang (黄士珊)
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (Distributed by Harvard University Press)，2012年
装帧：精装，526页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 20.3*25.4 cm (8 x 10 英寸)

ISBN：978-0-6745-0428-8

简介
本书是首部系统研究道教视觉文化的开创性著作，聚焦中国本土宗教道教的图像传统。作者黄士珊（莱斯大学艺术史系副教授）全面梳理了10至13世纪（兼及更早和更晚时期）道教图像在敦煌写本、墓葬文物、绘画以及明代《道藏》所收符箓、图绘、版画等多种媒介中的呈现。
“真形”是理解道教视觉性的核心概念，它不是静态的，而是洞见深层秘象的动态过程。全书结构分两大部分：第一部分聚焦与内修、冥想相关的内在图像，探讨自我修炼与长生；第二部分考察道教仪式中的视觉与物质维度。黄士珊揭示了道教象征的三种核心模式——非偶像的、非物质的与短暂性的——并指出道教图像制作超越了传统的“文本-图像”二分，将书写融入图像设计之中。正是这些特征使其区别于佛教视觉文化。

Picturing the True Form investigates the long-neglected visual culture of Daoism, China's primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to both earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Shih-shan Susan Huang provides a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, and paintings, as well as other charts, illustrations, and talismans preserved in the fifteenth-century Daoist Canon. True form (zhenxing), the key concept behind Daoist visuality, is not static, but entails an active journey of seeing underlying and secret phenomena.

This book's structure mirrors the two-part Daoist journey from inner to outer. Part I focuses on inner images associated with meditation and visualization practices for self-cultivation and longevity. Part II investigates the visual and material dimensions of Daoist ritual. Interwoven through these discussions is the idea that the inner and outer mirror each other and the boundary demarcating the two is fluid. Huang also reveals three central modes of Daoist symbolism—aniconic, immaterial, and ephemeral—and shows how Daoist image-making goes beyond the traditional dichotomy of text and image to incorporate writings in image design. It is these particular features that distinguish Daoist visual culture from its Buddhist counterpart.