ID: 66
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Lingchi C as a book cover
DocumentNature: Photolithograph
Glass: Negative
Support: Paper
Mono: Monoscopic
Repository: Turandot
Color: Black and white
Topic: Supplice (esthetic representation of)
Description: Pékin qui s'en va (2e édition)
This reprint includes four photographs of lingchi execution. Moreover, while the cover of the first edition was just a cut out of the criminal, the second one shows the whole scene, with blood highlighted in dark red color with green tinges.
Bibliography
1:Name:
CARPEAUX, Louis Pékin qui s'en va
Related Replication (1)
1 Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon Title: Lingchi photographs replicated in mass media Information: Fu-zhu-li's execution by lingchi was widely diffused by media: examples of the replication of three shots as a book cover by Carpeaux (see covers), as illustration by Carpeaux and Matignon, and as postcards in the serials of 12 numbered "Supplices chinois", published in Tianjin by a mysterious "Lieou-sseu" (very likely 六四, that is the 4th of June?).
Geolocation Asia --> China
Derniére modification le : 2005-11-16 |