@article{THESIS,
      recid = {6237},
      author = {Bai, Haochen},
      title = {Painted Screens: Image, Medium, and Beyond},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2023-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {Painted screens serve a dual purpose in Chinese history:  blocking off the winds as a furnishing and providing  aesthetic enjoyment as a painting-bearing object. Art  historians of Chinese art have paid close attention to the  Chinese painted screen and studied this image-bearing  object of various kinds. However, while scholars have  developed concrete analyses of one single screen in  isolation, the connections between the screens and their  relations with the domestic and natural environment have  not been thoroughly discussed. Following the pioneering  research on painted screens and using Reading under a  Pavilion Roof in the Wind as my major example, I argue that  in an interior where multiple screens are arranged, painted  screens should be viewed with each other and with the wider  environment, all of which contribute to the essential  viewing experience of the viewer. Moreover, diverging from  the heavy emphasis on the visual in the traditional art  history methodology, the presences of light, sound, and  smell are highlighted when analyzing the function of each  object in the painting. },
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6237},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.6237},
}