Some Technical Terms In The Early Literature Of Chinese Painting

Author : Robert J. Maeda
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472038138

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Two Twelfth-Century Texts on Chinese Painting by Robert J. Maeda Pdf

Two Twelfth-Century Texts on Chinese Painting presents two texts in translation that provide dual insight into the Painting Academy of Emperor Hui-tsung and the literati school of painting. The Shan-shui ch’un-ch’uan chi is a treatise for beginning landscape painters dated to the Hsüan-ho era. The treatise was written by Han Cho, a reputed member of the Academy, but the text was not specifically directed at Academicians. The treatise collects and orders previous writings on landscape painting; one of Han Cho’s main goals is to list all landscape definitions and their practical application in painting. Yet his view is more detached and analytical than a stereotypical Academy painter, revealing an approach reminiscent of Confucian scholarship and literati painting as well. The Hua-chi by Teng Ch’un is a history of painting that was written as a sequel to two earlier painting histories. In ten chapters, Teng Ch’un compiles facts and critical evaluations of painters from 1075 to 1167, as well as listings of selected masterpieces. Teng Ch’un provides more specific information about the Academy than Han Cho, discussing its organization and examination system, and noting that “form-likeness” and adherence to rules were leading standards for painting in the Academy. On the other hand, he thinks that painting should transmit “soul,” not just “form.” Thus, Teng Ch’un writes the history of both the establishment values of the Academy and the intellectual tendencies of the literati.

Author : Michael Sullivan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1962-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520035585

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The Birth of Landscape Painting in China: The Sui and Tʻang dynasties by Michael Sullivan Pdf

Vol. 2 has title: Chinese landscape painting.

Author : Sarah Elizabeth Fraser
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0804745331

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Performing the Visual by Sarah Elizabeth Fraser Pdf

This book provides an insightful new study, drawn from the largely unpublished Buddhist paintings at Dunhuang, of medieval Chinese wall painting, workshop production, and artistic performance in theory and practice.

Author : Alfreda Murck,Wen Fong
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Calligraphy, Chinese
ISBN : 9780870996047

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Words and Images by Alfreda Murck,Wen Fong Pdf

In May of 1985, an international symposium was held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in honor of John M. Crawford, Jr., whose gifts of Chinese calligraphy and painting have constituted a significant addition to the Museum's holdings. Over a three-day period, senior scholars from China, Japan, Taiwan, Europe, and the United States expressed a wide range of perspectives on an issue central to the history of Chinese visual aesthetics: the relationships between poetry, calligraphy, and painting. The practice of integrating the three art forms-known as san-chiieh, or the three perfections-in one work of art emerged during the Sung and Yuan dynasties largely in the context of literati culture, and it has stimulated lively critical discussion ever since. This publication contains twenty-three essays based on the papers presented at the Crawford symposium. Grouped by subject matter in a roughly chronological order, these essays reflect research on topics spanning two millennia of Chinese history. The result is an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex set of relationships between words and images by art historians, literary historians, and scholars of calligraphy. Their findings provide us with a new level of understanding of this rich and complicated subject and suggest further directions for the study of Chinese art history. The essays are accompanied by 255 illustrations, some of which reproduce works rarely published. Chinese characters have been provided throughout the text for artists names, terms, titles of works of art and literature, and important historical figures, as well as for excerpts of selected poetry and prose. A chronology, also containing Chinese characters, and an extensive index contribute to making this book illuminating and invaluable to both the specialist and the layman.

Author : Maria CHENG, TANG Wai Hung, Eric CHOY
Publisher : City University of HK Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789629371883

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Essential Terms of Chinese Painting by Maria CHENG, TANG Wai Hung, Eric CHOY Pdf

Essential Terms of Chinese Painting provides a comprehensive coverage of the broad spectrum of Chinese painting. Through an array of some 900 terms, it exhibits the history of Chinese culture, as interpreted by artists and portrayed in their work. In masterful detail, it describes not only the artistic implements and drawing styles, but also how these are influenced by changing cultural considerations over time such as religion, philosophy, intellectual ideas, and political developments. From the broad view of how the change of dynasties affected painting trends in both format and subject, to the smallest detail of the methods used to paint different styles of tree branches, this is a full compendium of the scope and depth of artwork from China. This volume features twelve chapters which • explore all major areas of art including techniques, implements and materials, inscriptions and seals, painting and mounting formats for all categories including landscape, bird-and-flower, figure and auspicious paintings; • provide a helpful resource for readers to enjoy Chinese art with over 500 full-colour illustrations and pictures to further elaborate the terms discussed; • serve as an introduction to begin a true understanding of traditional Chinese painting.

Author : Robert Goree
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781684176267

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Printing Landmarks by Robert Goree Pdf

Printing Landmarks tells the story of the late Tokugawa period’s most distinctive form of popular geography: meisho zue. Beginning with the publication of Miyako meisho zue in 1780, these monumental books deployed lovingly detailed illustrations and informative prose to showcase famous places (meisho) in ways that transcended the limited scope, quality, and reliability of earlier guidebooks and gazetteers. Putting into spellbinding print countless landmarks of cultural significance, the makers of meisho zue created an opportunity for readers to experience places located all over the Japanese archipelago. In this groundbreaking multidisciplinary study, Robert Goree draws on diverse archival and scholarly sources to explore why meisho zue enjoyed widespread and enduring popularity. Examining their readership, compilation practices, illustration techniques, cartographic properties, ideological import, and production networks, Goree finds that the appeal of the books, far from accidental, resulted from specific choices editors and illustrators made about form, content, and process. Spanning the fields of book history, travel literature, map history, and visual culture, Printing Landmarks provides a new perspective on Tokugawa-period culture by showing how meisho zue depicted inspiring geographies in which social harmony, economic prosperity, and natural stability made for a peaceful polity.

Author : Laurence C. S. Sickman,Alexander Coburn Soper
Publisher : Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Baltimore : Penquin Books
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSC:32106001419651

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The Art and Architecture of China by Laurence C. S. Sickman,Alexander Coburn Soper Pdf

Author : J. P. Park
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295807034

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Art by the Book by J. P. Park Pdf

Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format were widely reprinted and disseminated in a number of contemporary publications. Focusing on Zhou's work, Art by the Book describes how such publications accommodated the cultural taste and demands of the general public, and shows how painting manuals functioned as a form in which everything from icons of popular culture to graphic or literary cliche was presented to both gratify and shape the sensibilities of a growing reading public. As a special commodity of early modern China, when cultural standing was measured by a person's command of literati taste and lore, painting manuals provided nonelite readers with a device for enhancing social capital.

Author : Ben-Ami Scharfstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226736112

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Art Without Borders by Ben-Ami Scharfstein Pdf

People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world’s different art traditions relate to art and to each other? Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein’s encyclopedic erudition is here brought to bear on the full breadth of the world of art. He draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. Through examples of work by Indian, Chinese, European, African, and Australianartists, Art Without Borders probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Continuing in this comparative vein, Scharfstein examines the mutual influence of European and non-European artists. Then, through a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s major art cultures, he shows how all of these individual traditions are gradually, but haltingly, conjoining into a single current of universal art. Finally, he concludes by looking at the ways empathy and intuition can allow members of one culture to appreciate the art of another. Lucid, learned, and incomparably rich in thought and detail, Art Without Borders is a monumental accomplishment, on par with the artistic achievements Scharfstein writes about so lovingly in its pages.

Author : William E. Gates
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0282627405

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Early Chinese Painting (Classic Reprint) by William E. Gates Pdf

Excerpt from Early Chinese Painting With the great T'ang era, 618 to 905, the influence of Buddhism had reached its full, and the three centuries are marked by extreme vigor, and by the definite development of the so-called Northern and Southern Schools. To give this period some illustration to aid our apprehension of its place, we might compare it to the Chaucerian period of English; and then we can think of the equally great Sung period, from 960 to 1280, as comparable in terms to an Elizabethan era, save that in each case we must measure the sustained strength of the periods not by one life or reign, but by the full life of the dynasty, three hundred years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Xiping Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811679360

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A Study on the Influence of Ancient Chinese Cultural Classics Abroad in the Twentieth Century by Xiping Zhang Pdf

This book presents an extensive literary survey of the influence of ancient Chinese cultural classics around the globe, highlighting a mammoth research project involving over forty countries or regions and more than twenty languages. As the book reveals, ancient Chinese culture was introduced to East Asian countries or regions very early on; furthermore, after the late Ming Dynasty, Chinese “knowhow” and ideas increasingly made inroads into the West. In particular, the translation of and research on Chinese classics around the world have enabled Chinese culture to take root and blossom on an unprecedented scale. In addition to offering a valuable resource for readers interested in culture, the social sciences, and philosophy, the book blazes new trails for the study of ancient Chinese culture.

Author : Martin J. Powers,Katherine R. Tsiang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781119121695

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A Companion to Chinese Art by Martin J. Powers,Katherine R. Tsiang Pdf

Exploring the history of art in China from its earliest incarnations to the present day, this comprehensive volume includes two dozen newly-commissioned essays spanning the theories, genres, and media central to Chinese art and theory throughout its history. Provides an exceptional collection of essays promoting a comparative understanding of China’s long record of cultural production Brings together an international team of scholars from East and West, whose contributions range from an overview of pre-modern theory, to those exploring calligraphy, fine painting, sculpture, accessories, and more Articulates the direction in which the field of Chinese art history is moving, as well as providing a roadmap for historians interested in comparative study or theory Proposes new and revisionist interpretations of the literati tradition, which has long been an important staple of Chinese art history Offers a rich insight into China’s social and political institutions, religious and cultural practices, and intellectual traditions, alongside Chinese art history, theory, and criticism

Author : Jane Evans
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486436586

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Chinese Brush Painting by Jane Evans Pdf

Describes the materials and equipment used in Chinese style painting, and shows how to depict flowers, rocks, trees, insects, birds, mammals, and people.

Author : William E. Gates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104736772

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Early Chinese Painting (1916) by William E. Gates Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : Anne Gail Burkus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3513448

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The Idea of Archaistic Landscape During Sung Times by Anne Gail Burkus Pdf