Commemorative Landscape Painting in China

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-691-15476-3
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

When is a landscape more than a landscape? This is a richly illustrated study of an important genre of Ming-dynasty Chinese painting in which landscapes are actually disguised portraits that celebrate an individual and his achievements, ambitions, and tastes in an open effort to win recognition, support, and social status. In this unique study, Anne de Coursey Clapp presents a broad view of these commemorative landscape paintings, including antecedents in the Song and Yuan dynasties. The book traces how in commemorative landscape painting members of the literati address their peers in a deeply familiar language of values, just as they had for centuries through literary biography. Although the setting for such pictures is always natural landscape, it is secondary to the man, and its true function is to mirror him as the humanistic ideal of the recluse-scholar. The book shows how the literary associations attached to the new landscape increased during the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368), when the first commemorative paintings appeared, and flourished through the Ming (1368-1644), producing an art form that was simultaneously pictorial and verbal. In the course of exploring the sources and meaning of these paintings, the book examines several varieties of dedicatory paintings, including departure paintings, and the interesting subgenre of "biehao," in which portrait subjects are symbolized through pictorial representations of their literary names.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clapp, Anne De Coursey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword 7

Preface and Acknowledgments 9

List of Illustrations 11
Chapter One 15

Early Commemorative Landscape in the Song Dynasty
Chapter Two 41

Conspicuous Seclusion
Chapter Three 79

What's in a Name? The Biehao Painting
Notes 111

Selected Bibliography 117

Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms 125

Index 131

Über Autor(innen)

Clapp, Anne De Coursey
Anne de Coursey Clapp is professor emerita of Wellesley College, where she taught East and Southeast Asian art history in the Art Department for more than three decades, retiring in 1999. She is the author of monographs on the Ming dynasty artists Wen Zhengming and Tang Yin.