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Dissertation Information for Steve Jay Goldberg

NAME:
- Steve Jay Goldberg

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Art History

SCHOOL:
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) (1981)

ADVISORS:
- None

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected

Title: COURT CALLIGRAPHY IN THE EARLY T'ANG DYNASTY

Abstract: "The purpose of this dissertation is to present a structural analysis of the calligraphic styles of the first master calligraphers at the court of the early T'ang dynasty: Ou-yang Hsun (557-641), Yu Shih-nan (558-638), and Ch'u Sui-liang (596-658). This account of calligraphic style is situated within a general inquiry into the political, social, and cultural conditions under which court calligraphy was produced. This involves two procedures. The first is the disclosure of the process of ideological valorization in which meaning was assigned to calligraphy through the organization of the determinate relations of its production. The second, which is undertaken after the actual stylistic analysis of the calligraphy in question, is the delineation of the existing traditions of calligraphic practice within and against which the court calligraphy of the early T'ang was produced.

The analysis of imperial patronage reveals that calligraphy was employed as part of the measures taken in order to establish the power and authority of the emperor and were ideologically motivated to present an image of imperial legitimacy. The analysis of calligraphic style indicates that the calligraphy of Ou-yang Hsun and Yu Shih-nan represent the culmination of the calligraphic traditions of the Northern and Southern Dynasties respectively. A radical structural synthesis of these opposing styles was forged by Ch'u Sui-liang, unifying their essential aspects in a single calligraphic style."

MPACT Scores for Steve Jay Goldberg

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Students under Steve Jay Goldberg

ADVISEES:
- None

COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Dadong Wan - University of Hawaii (1994)