Chinese Painting and Its Audiences

Chinese Painting and Its Audiences
Author :
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 304
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780691171937
ISBN-13 : 0691171939
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Chinese Painting and Its Audiences by : Craig Clunas

Download or read book Chinese Painting and Its Audiences written by Craig Clunas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Richly illustrated, 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.


Chinese Painting and Its Audiences Related Books

Chinese Painting and Its Audiences
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Craig Clunas
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-28 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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,
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Craig Clunas
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-10-17 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A 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
Chinese Painting Techniques
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Alison Stilwell Cameron
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-19 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Over thousands of years, the art of Chinese paintings has been refined into an exquisitely developed system of visual representation. But until the publication
How to Read Chinese Paintings
Language: en
Pages: 185
Authors: Maxwell K. Hearn
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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 dial
Art in Turmoil
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Richard King
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: UBC Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Chapters by scholars of Chinese history and art and by artists whose careers were shaped by the Cultural Revolution decode the rhetoric of China's turbulent dec