Resumen de Trapped: A Northern Song Painting
The writer responds to Jonathan Hay's article, appearing in this issue, on the role of mediation in an artwork, specifically in the painting A Solitary Temple below Brightening Peaks (Qingluan xiaosi). Hay's article suffers because it does not give an adequately contextualized account of the painting A Solitary Temple. Nor does the article acknowledge that theories on Western modern and contemporary art are far from universal doctrines that can be used indiscriminately in other art environments. A sound foundation in Sinology cannot be neglected because it forms the basis for how scholars of Chinese art determine which broader issues and discourses are relevant to their culture-specific research.
