Dreaming the Southern Song Landscape

The Power of Illusion in Chinese Painting
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-11011-3
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 268 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology

Establishing a new approach to reading Chinese landscape painting, this work centers around an early key example of scholarly painting, viz. Dream Journey on the Xiao and Xiang Rivers (late 12th century). The author restores the status of Dream Journey as a cultural icon for Confucians, an object of contemplation for aesthetes, an imaginary dream journey for poets, and an incentive to cultivate one’s moral intentions for both Buddhist monks and lay scholars. Also it is convincingly argued that scholarly painting originates in the Southern Song (1127-1279) and not, as is commonly thought, in the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368).

Zielgruppe

Art Historians, scholars of Chinese history and literature, or, more specifically, all those interested in the relationship of painting and poetry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ortiz, Valérie Malenfer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Byzantinisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Frühchristliche, byzantinische Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Valérie Malenfer Ortiz, Ph.D. (1990) in Fine Arts, Harvard University, has published on the history of Chinese painting, concentrating on the Southern Song and Ming periods.