The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-796-4 (ISBN)
The Chinese picture-scroll, a long painting or calligraphic work held within a horizontal scrolling mount, has been China’s pre-eminent aesthetic format for the last two millennia. This first extended history of the picture-scroll explores its extraordinary longevity, and its adaptability to social, political and technological change. The book describes what the picture-scroll demands of a viewer, how China’s artists grappled with its cultural power, and how collectors and connoisseurs have left their marks on scrolls for later generations to judge. The return to mass appeal of scrolling – a media technology that seemed long outdated yet persists in our digital age – provides urgent and fascinating context to this book.
Shane McCausland is Percival David Professor of the History of Art at SOAS University of London. His many books include The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271–1368 (Reaktion Books, 2014), and he has curated numerous exhibitions in Europe, North America and China.
Introduction
Chapter One On Origins and Uses over the First Millennium
Chapter Two Inscribing the Artist and the Collector: The Picture-Scroll in the Song-Liao-Jin Period
Chapter Three Handscrolls in Mongol Palaces
Chapter Four Musing on Shadows: Reading the Ming Picture-Scroll
Chapter Five Qing: Reading the 'Baroque' Handscroll
Chapter Six Modernist Uses of the Chinese Picture-Scroll
Chapter Seven The Medium of Silent Poetry in the Late Modern World
References
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.12.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 199 illustrations, 184 in colour |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 190 x 250 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78914-796-4 / 1789147964 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78914-796-4 / 9781789147964 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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