An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings

An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings

Author: James Cahill

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1980-01-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780520035768

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This is the most comprehensive English-language compilation available on Chinese painters and their works from the late sixth through the mid- fourteenth century. Incorporating the work of Ellen Johnson Laing and Osvald Siren, the Index includes biographical details of the artists, their style and studio names.


An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Painting

An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Painting

Author: James Cahill

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2024-03-29

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 0520314840

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived


Pictures for Use and Pleasure

Pictures for Use and Pleasure

Author: James Cahill

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0520258576

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"This is an outstanding piece of work: timely, essential, authoritative, and original. Cahill throws light on obscure artists, emerging styles and regional traditions, unexplored aspects of cultural life, enigmatic iconographies, and questions of authorship and authenticity, leaving the reader richly informed and full of new ideas."--Susan Nelson, Indiana University "Cahill brings the vast body of 'vernacular' painting into the legitimate venue of art historical criticism, giving connoisseurs, viewers, and readers a more capacious and accurate grasp of the world of Chinese pictorial art."--Susan Mann, author of The Talented Women of the Zhang Family


Beyond Representation

Beyond Representation

Author: Wen Fong

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 571

ISBN-13: 0300057016

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Beyond Representation surveys Chinese painting and calligraphy from the eighth to the fourteenth century, a period during which Chinese society and artistic expression underwent profound changes. A fourteenth-century Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368) literati landscape painting presents a world that is totally different from that portrayed in the monumental landscape images of the early Sung dynasty (960 - 1279). To chronicle and explain the evolution from formal representation to self-expression is the purpose of this book. Wen C. Fong, one of the world's most eminent scholars of Chinese art, takes the reader through this evolution, drawing on the outstanding collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Focusing on 118 works, each illustrated in full color, the book significantly augments the standard canon of images used to describe the period, enhancing our sense of the richness and complexity of artistic expression during this six-hundred-year era.


Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting

Author: Richard M. Barnhart

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 0300094477

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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.


Early Chinese Texts on Painting

Early Chinese Texts on Painting

Author: Susan Bush

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Published: 2012-11-01

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 9888139738

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For students of Chinese art and culture this anthology has proven invaluable since its initial publication in 1985. It collects important Chinese writings about painting, from the earliest examples through the fourteenth century, allowing readers to see how the art of this rich era was seen and understood in the artists’ own times. Some of the texts in this treasury fall into the broad category of aesthetic theory; some describe specific techniques; some discuss the work of individual artists. The texts are presented in accurate and readable translations, and prefaced with artistic and historical background information to the formative periods of Chinese theory and criticism. A glossary of terms and an appendix containing brief biographies of 270 artists and critics add to the usefulness of this volume.


Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting

Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting

Author: Yi Gu

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-02-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1684176131

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"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."


The Compelling Image

The Compelling Image

Author: James Cahill

Publisher: Belknap Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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James Cahill explores the radiant painting of that tumultuous era when the collapse of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China dramatically changed the lives and thinking of artists and intellectuals. Over 250 illustrations, including 12 color plates, are drawn from collections in the United States, Europe, Japan, and China.


The Lyric Journey

The Lyric Journey

Author: James Cahill

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780674539709

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This beautifully illustrated book looks at three exemplary traditions in poetic painting, bringing new understanding of the relationship between the art and the societies that produced it.