书名：Geo-Narratives of a Filial Son: The Paintings and Travel Diaries of Huang Xiangjian (1609–1673) / 孝子的地理叙事：黄向坚（1609—1673）的绘画与游记
定价：728.0
ISBN：9780674088436
作者：Elizabeth Kindall
版次：1
出版时间：2016-02

内容提要：
书名：Geo-Narratives of a Filial Son: The Paintings and Travel Diaries of Huang Xiangjian (1609–1673) / 孝子的地志叙事：黄向坚（1609–1673）的绘画与行旅日记
作者：Elizabeth Kindall
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (由哈佛大学出版社发行)，2016年
装帧：精装，504页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 17.8*25.4 cm（7 x 10 英寸）

ISBN：978-0-6740-8843-6

简介
黄向坚是十七世纪中叶苏州地方精英阶层的一员，曾徒步远赴中国西南地区，并以特定地点为对象描绘其壮丽景色。Elizabeth Kindall 通过创新性的分析，阐释了黄向坚在其作品中传达的视觉体验与社会功能，揭示了一种此前未被识别的“地志叙事”（geo-narratives）绘画传统。这些作品叙述了特定的旅程，并在绘画中生成意义。Kindall 展示了黄向坚如何借鉴苏州的地景绘画传统、历史方志与个人行旅记录中关于西南地点的经验编码，以及地点本身的形貌，来创作这些地志叙事作品。最终，这些作品旨在塑造人物身份，并在明清易代之际的士人阶层中实现特定的社会目的。黄向坚的部分西南绘画与行旅日记，成为其争取“孝子”这一社会公认称号的努力的一部分，而另一些则服务于私人功能。这部权威研究阐明了黄向坚绘画的背景，并将“地志叙事”界定为一种独特的山水画传统，因其自然主义的直接性、体验性的地形描绘，以及关于道德劝诫、身份认同与传记纪念的戏剧性叙事而备受赞誉。

Huang Xiangjian, a mid-seventeenth-century member of the Suzhou local elite, journeyed on foot to southwest China and recorded its sublime scenery in site-specific paintings. Elizabeth Kindall's innovative analysis of the visual experiences and social functions Huang conveyed through his oeuvre reveals an unrecognized tradition of site paintings, here labeled geo-narratives, that recount specific journeys and create meaning in the paintings. Kindall shows how Huang created these geo-narratives by drawing upon the Suzhou place-painting tradition, as well as the encoded experiences of southwestern sites discussed in historical gazetteers and personal travel records, and the geography of the sites themselves. Ultimately these works were intended to create personas and fulfill specific social purposes among the educated class during the Ming-Qing transition. Some of Huang's paintings of the southwest, together with his travel records, became part of a campaign to attain the socially generated title of Filial Son, whereas others served private functions. This definitive study elucidates the context for Huang Xiangjian's painting and identifies geo-narrative as a distinct landscape-painting tradition lauded for its naturalistic immediacy, experiential topography, and dramatic narratives of moral persuasion, class identification, and biographical commemoration.