书名：The Painting Master' s Shame: Liang Shicheng and the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings / 画师的耻辱：梁师成与宣和画谱
定价：398.0
ISBN：9780674293748
作者：Amy McNair
版次：1
出版时间：2023-09

内容提要：
书名：The Painting Master’s Shame: Liang Shicheng and the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings / 画师的耻辱：梁师成与《宣和画谱》
作者：Amy McNair
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (Distributed by Harvard University Press)，2023年
装帧：精装，268页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 15.2*22.9 cm (6 x 9 英寸)

ISBN：978-0-6742-9374-8

简介
本书推翻了长久以来认为《宣和画谱》是北宋皇帝宋徽宗（1100–1126年在位）所作的假设。Amy McNair论证指出，该画谱实际上是在高官宦官梁师成的指导下编纂的。梁师成身为宦官，试图摆脱低贱身份、提升至文士精英阶层的社会地位，他拥有接近皇帝和宫廷的特权。McNair的研究基于对《宣和画谱》全文的翻译和深入分析，为中国绘画批评史上这一重要里程碑的著作权问题提供了决定性的论证，并阐明了其编纂的原因和方式。
本书描述了画谱写作时期（约1120年）的显著历史背景。围绕“新法”的政治斗争、“士人业余”理想在绘画批评和实践中的推广，以及宦官群体作为一个强势阶层的崛起，共同为这些官员提供了前所未有的机会，使他们能够通过学术活动和政治参与来提升威望。McNair分析了画谱的核心论战性叙事——一位高官被错误地称为低贱头衔“画师”的屈辱——作为理解梁师成方法和动机的关键。

Overturning the long-held assumption that the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings was the work of the Northern Song emperor Huizong (r. 1100–1126), Amy McNair argues that it was compiled instead under the direction of Liang Shicheng. Liang, a high-ranking eunuch official who sought to raise his social status from that of despised menial to educated elite, had privileged access to the emperor and palace. McNair’s study, based on her translation and extensive analysis of the text of the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings, offers a definitive argument for the authorship of this major landmark in Chinese painting criticism and clarifies why and how it was compiled.

The Painting Master’s Shame describes the remarkable circumstances of the period around 1120, when the catalogue was written. The political struggles over the New Policies, the promotion of the “scholar amateur” ideal in painting criticism and practice, and the rise of eunuch court officials as a powerful class converged to allow those officials the unprecedented opportunity to enhance their prestige through scholarly activities and politics. McNair analyzes the catalogue’s central polemical narrative—the humiliation of the high-ranking minister mistakenly called by the lowly title “Painting Master”—as the key to understanding Liang Shicheng’s methods and motives.