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鈥淭omb Tales and the Trans-position of Media in Medieval China鈥�

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This talk considers what an examination of works excavated from medieval tombs 鈥� painted surfaces and carved objects of clay and stone 鈥� can tell us about a hierarchy of media and the potential porousness of text-based media categories art history has long taken for granted. What did inhabitants of fifth century north China value in artistic constructions before the ninth-century critic Zhang Yanyuan anointed painting for recreation as his metric? How did artists work across media during a time of pronounced migration and exchange, particularly an era which witnessed an influx of novel objects and technology derived from nomadic, Sinitic and Buddhist practices? A reexamination of textual sources penned by elite authors such as court historians or Zhang鈥檚 influential Lidai minghua ji (Record of Famous Paintings through the Dynasties) against the chance finds of archaeology challenges painting鈥檚 primacy and urges us to see the long relevance of material culture.