Culture in Common

Wang Yiting's Art of Exchange with Japan
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-27138-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, Gewicht: 1 g

Reihe: Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture

Between Friends articulates Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s through an examination of efforts of one of those exchanges’ most important contributors, the Chinese painter, calligrapher, and supporter of the arts Wang Yiting. In recent decades he has reemerged from art-historical obscurity, with scholarship and the international art market now considering him one of the most important artists of the later Shanghai School. Walter Davis substantially expands and refines our knowledge of Wang and greatly adds to our understanding of modern Sino-Japanese cultural relations by considering a vital dimension of Wang’s activity that has remained obscure, his artistic engagement with Japan. Making unprecedented use of materials preserved in the Japanese archive and little-examined publications from Wang’s day, this study articulates the profoundly social and transnational character of his painting, calligraphy, organizational efforts, and posthumous reputation. It traces how Wang’s continuing interests in international business and politics and his fashioning of himself as a man of culture prompted his cultivation of social ties with Japan and shaped his production of works for Japanese recipients and patrons. Articulating his use of art in pursuit of Sino-Japanese artistic, religious, and philanthropic projects, this study documents and characterizes transnational cultural phenomena that have received little attention and identifies salient features of Wang’s artistic career.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of modern Chinese and modern Asian art and cultural history

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation

Über Autor(innen)

Walter B. Davis, Ph.D. (2008), Ohio State University, is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta. His All under Heaven: The Chinese World in Maps, Pictures, and Texts from the Collection of Floyd Sully won an A.L.A. Leab Award.