Longing For Nature Reading Landscapes In Chinese Art

Author : Kim Karlsson
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783775746700
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Longing for Nature: Reading Landscapes in Chinese Art written by Kim Karlsson and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2020 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret language of Chinese landscape painting A genre dating back more than 1,000 years, China's landscape painting tradition reflects all of its cultural and intellectual history, and its representational language famously follows its own rules. What at first glance seem to be idyllic ink-wash pictures actually depict far more than romantic landscapes. Through subtle allusions and references, Chinese landscape painters were able to convey a whole range of messages, from social positions to political opposition, all the way to philosophical observations and very personal feelings. This splendid illustrated volume unlocks these codes and juxtaposes important historical works with landscape paintings by internationally renowned modern and contemporary artists. The dialogue between past and present reveals surprising links, but also ruptures and conflicts.

Author : Yi Gu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684176131
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting written by Yi Gu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic perception of modern Chinese painters reveal about the relationship between artists and the nation-state? Could an understanding of modern Chinese landscape painting tell us something previously unknown about art, political change, and the epistemological and sensory regime of twentieth-century China? Yi Gu tackles these questions by focusing on the rise of open-air painting in modern China. Chinese artists almost never painted outdoors until the late 1910s, when the New Culture Movement prompted them to embrace direct observation, linear perspective, and a conception of vision based on Cartesian optics. The new landscape practice brought with it unprecedented emphasis on perception and redefined artistic expertise. Central to the pursuit of open-air painting from the late 1910s right through to the early 1960s was a reinvigorated and ever-growing urgency to see suitably as a Chinese and to see the Chinese homeland correctly. Examining this long-overlooked ocular turn, Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of visual modernity there."

Author : Juliane Noth
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684176603
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting written by Juliane Noth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese ink painters of the Republican period (1911–1949) creatively engaged with a range of art forms in addition to ink, such as oil painting, drawing, photography, and woodblock prints. They transformed their medium of choice in innovative ways, reinterpreting both its history and its theoretical foundations. Juliane Noth offers a new understanding of these compelling experiments in Chinese painting by studying them as transmedial practice, at once shaped by and integral to the modern global art world. Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting shines a spotlight on the mid-1930s, a period of intense productivity in which Chinese artists created an enormous number of artworks and theoretical texts. The book focuses on the works of three seminal artists, Huang Binhong, He Tianjian, and Yu Jianhua, facilitating fresh insights into this formative stage of their careers and into their collaborations in artworks and publications. In a nuanced reading of paintings, photographs, and literary and theoretical texts, Noth shows how artworks and discussions about the future of ink painting were intimately linked to the reshaping of the country through infrastructure development and tourism, thus leading to the creation of a uniquely modern Chinese landscape imagery.

Author : Richard M. Barnhart
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300094477
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting written by Richard M. Barnhart and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of eminent international scholars, this book is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting over a span of some 3000 years.

Author : Richard Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Luminous Landscape written by Richard Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Chinese art and poetry from various periods chosen to reflect, as a common theme, an appreciation for the Chinese landscape.

Author : Michael Sullivan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Landscape Painting in China written by Michael Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ping Foong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 168417547X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Efficacious Landscape written by Ping Foong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ink landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and painters of this era produced some of the most celebrated artworks in Chinese history. The Efficacious Landscape addresses how landmark works of this pivotal period first came to be identified as potent symbols of imperial authority and later became objects through which exiled scholars expressed disaffection and dissent. In fulfilling these diverse roles, landscape demonstrated its efficacy in communicating through embodiment and in transcending the limitations of the concrete.Building on decades of monographic writings on Song painting, this carefully researched study presents a syncretic vision of how ink landscape evolved within the eleventh-century court community of artists, scholars, and aristocrats. Detailed visual analyses of surviving works and new insight about key landscapes by the court painter Guo Xi support the perspective put forward here and introduce original methodologies for interpreting painting as an integral element of political and cultural history. By focusing on the efforts of emperors, empresses, and eunuchs to cultivate ink landscape and its iconography, this investigation also tackles the social and class dichotomies that have long defined and frustrated existing scholarship on this period’s paintings, highlighting instead the interconnectedness of painting practice’s elite modalities."

Author : 李东旭
Publisher : New Phoenix International Llc
ISBN 13 : 9787119046150
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Landscape Painting for Beginners written by 李东旭 and published by New Phoenix International Llc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese painting prior to the 20th century achieved great success in depictions of landscapes. To engage in such a genre, either wholeheartedly or as a dilettante, is an exciting experience. Through this book to learn that.

Author : Michael Sullivan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520035584
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Landscape Painting in China: The Sui and Tʻang dynasties written by Michael Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1962-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 2 has title: Chinese landscape painting.

Author : Qingquan Zhao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Penjing written by Qingquan Zhao and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: