Chinese ways of seeing and open-air painting : Yi Gu
Author(s): Gu, Yi
Library Item Details
- Main Title
- Chinese ways of seeing and open-air painting
- Author(s)
- Gu, Yi
- Publisher
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center, 2020
- Collation
- xv, 317 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)
26 cm - Series Title
- Harvard East Asian monographs
- ISBN
- 9780674244450
- Dewey Class
- 759.951
- Contents
- Introduction. Optical Vision and the Ocular Turn ; Rethinking Modern Chinese Art ; Materials, Methodology, and Chapter Summary --
1. Open-Air Painting and the Modern Chinese Painter. "Sketching from Life" and Western-Style Painting ; Scientizing Vision in China ; The Rise of Open-Air Painting ; Sketching the Homeland --
2. Optical Vision and New Modes of Depiction. Qujing: View-Taking ; Goutu: Composition ; Toushi: Perspective ; Shidian (Viewpoint) and Dipingxian (Horizon) ; Guohua through the Optical Eye ; Seeing Monumental Landscape at Mount Huang ; Western-Style Painting and West Lake --
3. Inventing Tradition through Open-Air Painting. Hu Peiheng and "Open-Air Painting in the Traditional Way" ; Yu Jianhua and "Open-Air Painting in the Guohua Way" ; Linear Perspective and "Sight" in Guohua Painting ; Cun Models and the Prioritization of Perception --
4. Open-Air Painting during the War. Guan Shanyue's Early Paintings and the Pursuit of Immediacy ; The 1940 Guilin Exhibition and Debates on Wartime Art ; Ten Thousand Miles of the Li River and Masculine Majesty ; Heroism and the Northwestern Borderland ; The Land of Production --
5. Views of the Party-State. Open-Air Painting in the New China ; Industrial Construction as Socialist Landscape ; The Poetic Turn ; New Look of Mountains and Streams ; Beyond the State's View --
Epilogue. Total Art: Perception as Critical Thinking ; The Rise of Bases for Open-Air Painting and the Ossified View. - Language
- English
- Subject
- Landscape painting, Chinese
- BRN
- 9978
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