慈禧肖像及其文化意涵的解读

Interpreting the Portrait of Cixi and Its Cultural Implications

帝后像是中国传统宫廷绘画的一个分支。自宋代以来,帝后像的制作渐成规模,其后帝后肖像的制作衍生出一套完整的规范。清代帝后肖像以其庞大的数量与多元化的形制,代表着此一绘画类别的鼎盛时期。本文试图就“慈禧肖像”作一个案研究,视角聚焦于与慈禧有关的图像和政治之间的关联,通过对不同风格图像的梳理分析,探讨作为传统与现代交织的多元化图像在发展、流变过程中是如何发挥其政治效用的。另外,较之以往的研究,本文致力于挖掘新兴传媒手段与封建皇权之间的关联,进一步讨论慈禧是如何意识到图像的功能以应对其社会形象的转变,并通过大众传媒的手段实现自身形象的营建。

The portrait of empresses is a branch of traditional Chinese court painting.Starting from the Song Dynasty,the production of empresses' portraits has gradually increased,and their subsequent production more and more developed and standardized.The portraits of empresses of the Qing Dynasty represented the heyday of this painting category with its huge quantity and diversified forms.This paper attempts to take the portraits of Cixi as a case study example,focusing on the perspective of the relationship between the images and politics related to Cixi,and through the analysis of different styles of paintings,to discuss how the diversified images intertwined tradition with modernity,and their political engagement and function in the process of development and transformation.In addition,compared with previous studies,this paper is devoted to exploring the relationship between emerging media means and feudal imperial power,and further discusses how Cixi realized the function of images in response to the transformation of her social image,and how she managed to build her image through mass media.