The Artification of the Nude: A Symbolic Revolution in the Art Field of Republican China (1912–1937)
Published online on August 13, 2024
Abstract
Cultural Sociology, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 113-132, March 2026.
The nude is a long-established category in western art, but in pre-modern China, images of the naked body were not art and carried the stigma of obscenity. This article uses the paradigm of artification to examine the transplantation of the nude into the ...
The nude is a long-established category in western art, but in pre-modern China, images of the naked body were not art and carried the stigma of obscenity. This article uses the paradigm of artification to examine the transplantation of the nude into the ...