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...Manchus had ousted the last Ming Emperor, whose rule was marked by financial bankruptcy and internal rebellion. Kangxi was only 7 in 1662 when he assumed the throne from his father, the first Qing Emperor, who died in a smallpox epidemic. Surviving the contagion (with scars intact, as portraits show), Kangxi worked skillfully to identify himself with both his native tribal culture and the scholarly traditions of the Chinese. Two likenesses, commissioned when he was about 30, demonstrate his Manchu soldier?Chinese scholar balancing act. A vibrant silk hanging scroll shows him in Manchu military armor, with crossbow and arrows...
...earliest dynasties, classical paintings and calligraphy, but he also wrote about them - sometimes on the works themselves. He stamped his approval on a piece quite literally, and his seals seem to be everywhere. For instance, several seals and a colophon mark Spring's Peaceful Message, a charming double portrait, painted by Castiglione around 1736, of Qianlong and his father. The older man is handing his son a sprig of flowering apricot, symbolizing a peaceful transition of power and wishes for a fruitful reign. Yongzheng did not want his chosen heir to suffer the questions of legitimacy that...
...about, Hong’s situation is akin to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or “Charming Billy” by Alice McDermott. Chang also says she was influenced by Henry James’s “Portrait of a Lady.” The most fascinating aspect of the novel is the interplay between the two sisters. In the novel Ling tells Junan that she and Yinan are like “two completely different blossoms on the same branch.” Chang says that...
...unique at the MFA is context and variety: photographs of Manhattan that Adams took when he visited the photographer Alfred Stieglitz in New York; poignant and funny pictures of run-down Western towns; a crazy photograph of sodium calcite crystals in Adams’s developing tray; a striking portrait of Georgia O’Keefe and Orville Cox; and, among Adams’ last pictures, an aerial view of a Los Angeles freeway interchange that evokes the powerful feeling of discovering something new and beautiful in the mundane—much like earlier close-ups of ferns and lichen.Despite...
...stage next to Jerry Lee Lewis (Waylon Payne). Cash’s home life may not have been perfect, but Phoenix takes every blow as though he were born to the role. As June Carter, Witherspoon draws on her Tennessee roots to come up with the strongest, sassiest portrait of a Southern girl since Scarlett O’Hara. Witherspoon has been a bit remiss in her movie choices as of late (“Just Like Heaven”), but, in this film, she returns to the acting promise seen in 1999’s “Election...