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Author : Paul Lewing
Release : 2007
Genre : China painting
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 695/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis China Paint & Overglaze by : Paul Lewing
Download or read book China Paint & Overglaze written by Paul Lewing. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yi Gu
Release : 2021-02-01
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 131/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting by : Yi Gu
Download or read book Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting written by Yi Gu. This book was released on 2021-02-01. 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 : Richard M. Barnhart
Release : 1997-01-01
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 477/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting by : Richard M. Barnhart
Download or read book Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting written by Richard M. Barnhart. This book was released on 1997-01-01. 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 : Craig Clunas
Release : 1997
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 077/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Art in China by : Craig Clunas
Download or read book Art in China written by Craig Clunas. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China can boast a history of art lasting 5,000 years and embracing a huge diversity of images and objects - jade tablets, painted silk handscrolls and fans, ink and lacquer painting, porcelain-ware, sculptures, and calligraphy. They range in scale from the vast 'terracotta army' with its 7,000or so life-size figures, to the exquisitely delicate writing of fourth-century masters such as Wang Xizhin and his teacher, 'Lady Wei'. But this rich tradition has not, until now, been fully appreciated in the West where scholars have focused their attention on sculpture, downplaying art more highlyprized by the Chinese themselves such as calligraphy. Art in China marks a breakthrough in the study of the subject. Drawing on recent innovative scholarship and on newly-accessible studies in China itself Craig Clunas surveys the full spectrum of the visual arts in China. He ranges from the Neolithic period to the art scene of the 1980s and 1990s,examining art in a variety of contexts as it has been designed for tombs, commissioned by rulers, displayed in temples, created for the men and women of the educated ilite, and bought and sold in the marketplace. Many of the objects illustrated in this book have previously been known only to a fewspecialists, and will be totally new to a general audience.
Author : Alfreda Murck
Release : 2000
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 826/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Poetry and Painting in Song China by : Alfreda Murck
Download or read book Poetry and Painting in Song China written by Alfreda Murck. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some of China's elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting. By examining literary archetypes, painting titles, contemporary inscriptions, and the historical context, Murck shows that certain paintings expressed strong political opinions--some transparent, others deliberately concealed.
