Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting
Title | Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Juliane Noth |
Publisher | Harvard East Asian Monographs |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2022-05-17 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780674267947 |
Juliane Noth shows how art and discussions about the future of ink painting were linked to the reshaping of the country, leading to the creation of a uniquely modern Chinese landscape imagery. Noth offers a new understanding of these experiments by studying them as transmedial practice, at once shaped by and integral to the modern global art world.
Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting
Title | Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Juliane Noth |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2023-11-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1684176603 |
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.
Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting
Title | Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Yi Gu |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2021-02-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1684176131 |
"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."
The Efficacious Landscape
Title | The Efficacious Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Ping Foong |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2020-05-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 168417547X |
"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."
Between Two Cultures
Title | Between Two Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Wen Fong |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Painting |
ISBN | 0870999842 |
The first comprehensive assemblage in the West of paintings on this subject, the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection comprises works in the classical Chinese medium of ink on paper and in the traditional formats of scrolls, album leaves, and fans."--BOOK JACKET.
The Lyric Journey
Title | The Lyric Journey PDF eBook |
Author | James Cahill |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780674539709 |
This beautifully illustrated book looks at three exemplary traditions in poetic painting, bringing new understanding of the relationship between the art and the societies that produced it.
Longing for Nature: Reading Landscapes in Chinese Art
Title | Longing for Nature: Reading Landscapes in Chinese Art PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Karlsson |
Publisher | Hatje Cantz Verlag |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Art, Chinese |
ISBN | 9783775746700 |
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.