The Efficacious Landscape

Foong Ping is Assistant Professor of Chinese Art at the University of Chicago.

出版者:Harvard University Press

作者:Ping Foong

页数:320

出版时间:2015-6-1

价格:USD 79.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780674417151

丛书系列:The Harvard East Asian Monographs

图书标签:艺术史海外中国研究宋畫landscape-studies景观宋历史书画

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.

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Landscape and power do not limit to the rivalry between the court and emerging class of the scholar-amateurs. The relation is also salient in how landscape became apt expressions for both imperial institutions and scholar-officials. The employment of landscape motifs are outcomes of selections and deliberation laden with political suggestion.

Landscape and power do not limit to the rivalry between the court and emerging class of the scholar-amateurs. The relation is also salient in how landscape became apt expressions for both imperial institutions and scholar-officials. The employment of landscape motifs are outcomes of selections and deliberation laden with political suggestion.

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