书名：Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie / 妖娆之美：女性主义重审中国风

ISBN：9781588397928  

作者：Iris Moon

出版：Yale University Press，2025

装帧：平装，256页

语种：英语

尺寸：18.5*26.6 cm

内容简介：

好奇心与批判精神构成了这部关于瓷器新史著作的核心，该书解构了“中国风”（Chinoiserie，即欧洲对东方的幻想）背后的文化神话。

《妖娆之美》（Monstrous Beauty）一书从女性主义视角出发，呈现了一段大胆的跨文化瓷器史。瓷器以其细腻质地和洁白色泽而备受珍视，于早期现代时期从中国首次传入欧洲，并自此与“中国风”这一风格产生了长久关联，该风格蕴含着人们对亚洲的神秘与迷人遐想。然而，本书深入探究了这种华丽风格背后潜藏的关于性别、种族和性取向的集体焦虑，这种风格在18世纪曾被一些批评家贬斥为怪诞且不自然。伊里斯·穆恩（Iris Moon）在一系列相互关联的文章中，剖析了“中国风”所蕴含的好奇与异国情调话语。她通过对成套瓷器、盘子、茶杯和茶托的细致观察，揭示了收集与占有瓷器的欲望如何催生了关于亚洲女性的刻板文化神话，以及这种欲望后来如何延伸至摄影和电影等媒介。此外，书中还收录了当代艺术家和学者对16世纪至今各类作品的16篇解读，他们针对这段复杂的历史，提出了如何在当下就“中国风”展开有意义的对话这一疑问。

Curiosity and critique foreground this novel history of porcelain that unravels the cultural myths of Chinoiserie, Europe’s fantasy of the East

Monstrous Beauty presents a bold cross-cultural history of porcelain told through a feminist lens. Prized for its delicate quality and whiteness, porcelain was first imported to Europe from China in the early modern period and gained lasting associations with Chinoiserie, a style that encapsulated associations of mystery and enchantment with Asia. This book probes the collective anxieties around gender, race, and sexuality lurking under the surface of this ornate style, derided by some eighteenth-century critics as monstrous and unnatural. In interconnected essays, Iris Moon unpacks Chinoiserie’s language of curiosity and exoticism. Here, close looking at garnitures, plates, teacups and saucers reveals how the desire to collect and possess porcelain created entrenched cultural myths of the Asian woman, and how it later extended into such mediums as photography and film. In addition, sixteen readings by contemporary artists and scholars, of works ranging from the sixteenth century to the present, respond to this fraught history by asking how we can engage in meaningful dialogues about Chinoiserie today.

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