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Item Number: 125822
Title: The Ladscape Painting of China : Musings of a Journeyman
Author: Vanderstappen, Harrie A
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780813037936
Description: Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. 28cm., hardcover, 384pp., 245 color images. Summary : The centuries-old tradition of Chinese landscape painting is a celebration of the fundamental essence of nature. Whether depicting mountains or streams, sweeping landscapes, or more intimate scenes, artists attempted to capture both the form and the spirit of the natural world. The Landscape Painting of China features more than 240 color reproductions of paintings from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, and Harrie Vanderstappen, a world-renowned expert on Chinese and Japanese art and a pioneering Asian art scholar, focuses on the complex relationships between the natural world form and its visual representation in landscape painting. One of the first Western art historians to master the Chinese and Japanese languages, Vanderstappen was able to study the primary sources and change the way the post-World War II West studied Chinese art. He looked beyond aesthetics and style, probing deeper into the philosophy and traditions that inspired and shaped the art, while acknowledging the importance of institutions and systems of patronage. His penetrating visual analysis of the paintings takes into account historical, theoretical, technical, and art historical perspectives. The Landscape Painting of China illuminates Chinese landscape painting as a true reflection of the meaning of nature in Chinese life and tradition. No single-author book on Chinese painting of this scope and scale has been published for many decades. (David A. Cofrin Asian Art Manuscript Series)
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