《红楼梦》图像概貌及文化解析

Cultural Analysis of the Image System of A Dream of Red Mansions

《红楼梦》有图像的历史已有三百余年,在其发展、演变的过程中既有"程甲本"、"双清仙馆本"、《红楼梦图咏》等传统木刻绣像,又有以上海为中心而涌现出的近现代石印、铅印图像,更有受新科技影响而产生的当下多元图像面貌。丰富多样的图像系统与《红楼梦》文本的传播间形成了良好的互动促进关系,也彰显了近现代印刷科技的革新在书籍传播领域的巨大影响,更凸显出自清中叶以来人们围绕《红楼梦》所形成的社会审美共识。

＂A Dream of Red Mansions＂image has a history over three hundred years. There have been manydifferent versions in the evolution process of its development, such as the traditional woodcut tapestry portrait、themodern lithographic printed image and the contemporary multivariate image by means of new technology. A goodinteractive relationship formed between various image and text communication. This reflects the great influence ofthe modern printing technology innovation of books in the field of communications and highlights the social aestheticconsensus since the middle period of Qing Dynasty.