书名：Through a Forest of Chancellors: Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge, an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth-Century Suzhou / 刘源敬绘凌烟阁
定价：510.0
ISBN：9780674032804
作者：Anne Burkus-Chasson
版次：1
出版时间：2010-01

内容提要：
书名：Through a Forest of Chancellors: Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth-Century Suzhou / 穿越“宰相之林”：刘源《凌烟阁》——一部十七世纪苏州版画书中的隐逸史
作者：Anne Burkus-Chasson
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (哈佛大学亚洲中心，由哈佛大学出版社发行)，2010年
装帧：精装，约378页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 21.6*27.9 cm (8? x 11 英寸)

ISBN：978-0-6740-3280-4

简介
本书是一部关于十七世纪书籍史、艺术与文学交叉研究的学术专著。研究对象是刘源于1669年在苏州刊刻的木版画书《凌烟阁》。原画册是纪念初唐二十四位开国功臣的肖像画廊，而刘源则创造性地将每一幅功臣像重塑为“好汉”形象，并配以诗句；诗作以多种书体写成，四周环绕着影射当时流行小说的图像，宗教圣像则被用于补充肖像画廊。本书从多个视角审视了《凌烟阁》中文本与图像之间的对话关系，通过对书籍物质性的细致分析，揭示其如何“体现”而非“反映”所诞生的历史时刻。作者指出，刘源在书中展现并戏剧化了手抄本与印刷本之间的衔接界面，围绕书籍制作主导权的协商、主张、推翻和重建不断展开。在十七世纪人们普遍转向视觉形式的知识这一背景下，作者认为观看与阅读在当时仍被视为相互冲突。这种冲突在刘源这部作品的每一页中上演。

This book examines Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge, a woodblock-printed book from 1669 that re-creates a portrait gallery memorializing twenty-four vassals of the early Tang court. Liu accompanied each figure, presented under the guise of a bandit, with a couplet; the poems, written in various scripts, are surrounded by marginal images that allude to a contemporary novel. Religious icons supplement the portrait gallery. This study examines the dialogues created among the texts and images in Lingyan ge from multiple perspectives. Analysis of the book's materialities demonstrates how Lingyan ge embodies, rather than reflects, the historical moment in which it was made. Liu unveiled and even dramatized the interface between manuscript and printed book in Lingyan ge. Authority over the book's production is negotiated, asserted, overturned, and reinstated. Use of pictures to construct a historical argument intensifies this struggle. Anne Burkus-Chasson argues that despite a general epistemological shift toward visual forms of knowledge in the seventeenth century, looking and reading were still seen as being in conflict. This conflict plays out among the leaves of Liu Yuan's book.