Discovering Chinese Painting
Author: Jason C. Kuo
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13:
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The Art Book of Chinese Paintings
Author: Ming Deng
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to a millennium's worth of Chinese paintings features 400 classical works by more than 240 artists that represent their different historical periods, in a volume that offers insight into how Chinese art uniquely reflects cultural perspectives and the natural world.
Chinese Art: The Impossible Collection
Author: Adrian Cheng
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
Published: 2021-05-01
Total Pages: 6
ISBN-13: 1614288844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile readers will come away from Chinese Art with a nuanced understanding of Chinese culture, the volume is also a work of art in its own right—a must-have collectible for any devotee of Chinese art and culture. Assouline’s Ultimate Collection is an homage to the art of luxury bookmaking—the oversized volume is hand-bound using traditional techniques, with several of the plates hand-tipped on art-quality paper and housed in a luxury silk clamshell.
How to Read Chinese Paintings
Author: Maxwell K. Hearn
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1588392813
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Together the text and illustrations gradually reveal many of the major themes and characteristics of Chinese painting. To "read" these works is to enter a dialogue with the past. Slowly perusing a scroll or album, one shares an intimate experience that has been repeated over the centuries. And it is through such readings that meaning is gradually revealed."--BOOK JACKET.
Chinese Painting
Author: Ming Deng
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 119
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChinese Painting and Its Audiences
Author: Craig Clunas
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2023-10-17
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0691253021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the reception of Chinese painting from the sixteenth century to the present What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Chinese Painting and Its Audiences demonstrates that viewers in China and beyond have irrevocably shaped this great artistic tradition. Arguing that audiences within China were crucially important to the evolution of Chinese painting, Clunas considers how Chinese artists have imagined the reception of their own work. By examining paintings that depict people looking at paintings, he introduces readers to ideal types of viewers: the scholar, the gentleman, the merchant, the nation, and the people. In discussing the changing audiences for Chinese art, Clunas emphasizes that the diversity and quantity of images in Chinese culture make it impossible to generalize definitively about what constitutes Chinese painting. Exploring the complex relationships between works of art and those who look at them, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences sheds new light on how the concept of Chinese painting has been formed and reformed over hundreds of years. Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
Parting the Mists
Author: Aida Yuen Wong
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2006-02-28
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0824845366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Parting the Mists, Aida Yuen Wong makes a convincing argument that the forging of a national tradition in modern China was frequently pursued in association with rather than in rejection of Japan. The focus of her book is on Japan’s integral role in the invention of "national-style painting," or guohua, in early-twentieth-century China. Guohua, referring to brush paintings on traditional formats, is often misconstrued as a residual conservatism from the dynastic age that barricaded itself within classical traditions. Wong places this art form at the forefront of cross-cultural exchange. Notable proponents of guohua (e.g., Chen Hengke, Jin Cheng, Fu Baoshi, and Gao Jianfu) are discussed in connection with Japan, where they discovered stylistic and ideological paradigms consonant with the empowering of "Asian/Oriental" cultural practices against the backdrop of encroaching westernization. Not just a "window on the West," Japan stood as an informant of China modernism in its own right. The first book in English devoted to Sino-Japanese dialogues in modern art, Parting the Mists explores the sensitive phenomenon of Japanism in the practice and theory of Chinese painting. Wong carries out a methodologically agile study that sheds light on multiple spheres: stylistic and iconographic innovations, history writing, art theory, patronage and the market, geopolitics, the creation of artists’ societies, and exhibitions. Without avoiding the dark history of Japanese imperialism, she provides a nuanced reading of Chinese views about Japan and the two countries’ convergent, and often colliding, courses of nationalism.
DISCOVERING CHINESE CULTURE IN TRAVELING
Author: KANG Ning
Publisher: American Academic Press
Published: 2020-10-01
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1631816934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscovering Chinese Culture in Travelling is selectively translated from China’s Tourism Culture compiled by the Editorial Board of China’s Tourism Culture. As we know, culture is the essential attribute of travel experience as well as that of travel industry, and cultural exchanges constitute the basis of tourism activities. The original book covers a wide range of cultural resources concerning Chinese travel destinations, from religions to food and wine. Featuring distinctive Chinese culture, this book shares with readers the insights into the concepts and connotations of tourism culture and also its reflections in China’s context. Subjects covered in this selective translation work include folk customs, traditional architectures, landscape of mountains and waters, and Chinese cuisine. The final goal of this book is to lead the reader to discover Chinese culture in traveling around this remarkable country.
Exploring Traditional Chinese Painting
Author: Son-Mey Chiu
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 840
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Chinese Art
Author: Martin J. Powers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2022-04-26
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 1119121698
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