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Author: Clarissa Von Spee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780714124704
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Displaying the beauty and skill of Chinese ink paintings through a selection of highlights from the British Museum's collection, Modern Chinese Ink Paintings features hanging scrolls, hand scrolls, large-scale paintings and album leaves to explore the innovative contributions of individual masters from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Clarissa von Spee explores how their artistic work has helped shape the image of modern China, revealing how their works reflect the political climates and important events of the times in which they were created. With reference to artistic exchanges between Picasso and Zhang Daqian, the relationship between modern Chinese painting and the modern Western art scene is also highlighted in this informative and accessible introduction to the subject.

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395049
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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"Featuring 70 works in various media--paintings, calligraphy, photographs, woodblock prints, video, and sculpture--that were created during the past three decades, Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China will demonstrate how China's ancient pattern of seeking cultural renewal through the reinterpretation of past models remains a viable creative path. Although all of the artists have transformed their sources through new modes of expression, visitors will recognize thematic, aesthetic, or technical attributes in their creations that have meaningful links to China's artistic past. The exhibition will be organized thematically into four parts and will include such highlights as Xu Bing's dramatic Book from the Sky (ca. 1988), an installation that will fill an entire gallery; Family Tree (2000), a set of vivid photographs documenting a performance by Zhang Huan in which his facial features--and his identity--are obscured gradually by physiognomic texts that are inscribed directly onto his face; and Map of China (2006) by Ai Weiwei, which is constructed entirely of wood salvaged from demolished Qing dynasty temples." --

Author: Juliane Noth
Publisher: Harvard East Asian Monographs
ISBN: 9780674267954
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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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.

Author: Robert D. Mowry
Publisher: Harvard Art Museums
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Drawn from the Chu-tsing Li collection of modern and contemporary Chinese paintings--the finest and most comprehensive of its kind in the West--A Tradition Redefined is the first in-depth exploration of the development of Chinese ink painting during the last half century. These extraordinary paintings demonstrate the reinvigoration of classical techniques and materials by artists throughout Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and abroad working with distinctly contemporary perspectives. Illuminating essays situate these new works within the rich history of ink painting in China, revealing how avant-garde artists, schools, and trends evoke traditional and early modern Chinese art while engaging with developments in the international art world. With artist biographies and handsome reproductions of many previously unpublished paintings, this book is essential for scholars and collectors of Asian art as well as for participants in the increasingly globalized contemporary art scene. Distributed for the Harvard Art Museum Exhibition Schedule: Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (November 3, 2007 - January 27, 2008) Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona (June 28 - September 14, 2008) Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (October 11, 2008 - January 4, 2009) Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence (February 11 - May 24, 2009)

Author: Richard Vinograd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781503606845
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Ink arts have flourished in China for more than two millennia. Once primarily associated with elite culture, ink painting is now undergoing a popular resurgence. Ink Worlds explores the modern evolution of this art form, from scrolls and panel paintings to photographic and video forms, and documents how Chinese ink arts speak to present-day concerns while simultaneously referencing deeply historical materials, themes, and techniques. Presenting the work of some two dozen artists from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States in more than 100 full-color reproductions, the book spans pioneering abstract work from the late 1960s through twenty-first century technological innovations. Nine illustrated essays build a compelling case for understanding the modern form as a distinct genre, fusing art and science, history and technology, painting and film into an accessible theory of contemporary ink painting. The Yamazaki/Yang collection is widely recognized as one of the most important private collections of contemporary Chinese ink art. Ink Worlds is the first book to represent the collection from the perspective of contemporary art history. From its atmospheric mountainscapes to precise calligraphy, this book is a revelation, bringing together the past, present, and future of an enduring and adaptable art form.

Author: Jason C. Kuo
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Text by Jason C. Kuo.

Author: Maxwell K. Hearn
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870999834
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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China's entry into the modern era was shaped by unprecedented internal turmoil and external pressures, which brought a forceful end to two millennia of imperial rule and cultural insularity. The essays in this volume offer a variety of perspectives on the impact of the West on indigenous literature, architecture, painting, and calligraphy during this period (ca. 1860-1980). This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art", held at the museum from 30th January-19th August 2001.

Author: Britta Erickson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780824847661
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Born into a poor farming family and coming of age during China's century of civil strife, Qi Baishi transformed the elite brush art of China's literati scholars into a universal art form appreciated by people of all social backgrounds. His distinctly modern art language breaks through class and cultural barriers through use of expressive carved brushwork, juxtaposition of vibrant colours against deep and rich ink tones, poetic economy in form and composition, and choice of emotionally resonant subject matter. For these reasons, Qi Baishi's art is the ideal gateway through which art lovers of any class or culture can learn about the millenia-old tradition of Chinese brush painting. A selection of Qi Baishi's seal carving--the art of the iron brush--links his origins as an artisan carver to his life as China's most celebrated calligrapher, poet and painter. The scholarly discipline calligraphy then forms the basis for our understanding Qi Baishi's distinctive carved brushwork.In painting, landscapes and figures are two subjects that appear early in Qi Baishi's career and provide us with an opportunity to appreciate the poetic economy of his brushwork and the universal appeal of his humanist themes. Finally, birds and flowers form the bulk of Qi Baishi's oeuvre and a chronological selection allows us to explore the development of his unique brush, ink and colour language over the span of his productive career. Published in association with Marquand Books and the Mozhai Foundation.

Author: Xingjian Gao
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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This book brings together over sixty ink paintings by Gao Xingjian that are representative of his philosophy and painting style. Gao believes that the world cannot be explained, and that artistic creation offers the only way to escape from the madding crowd. The images in his paintings show exactly those aspects of the world that he believes to be inexplicable -- the black-and-white inner world that underlies the complexity of human existence. All his paintings are drawn in the traditional Chinese black ink on rice paper because he feels that "the brushing and spread of the ink on rice paper holds a definite kind of enjoyment" for him. Gao's painting is characterized by the spontaneous overflow of the ink and his seemingly abstract images which are nonetheless figurative or metaphorical. People admire his meditative images and evocative atmosphere by which Gao intends his viewers to visualize the human conditions in extremity.--From publisher description

Author: Richard M. Barnhart
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300094477
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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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.