The Other Kang Youwei

Calligrapher, Art Activist, and Aesthetic Reformer in Modern China
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29950-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 197 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 1028 g

Reihe: Modern Asian Art and Visual Culture

The Other Kang Youwei is the first in-depth study of the art historical importance of Kang Youwei (1858-1927). The most prominent constitutional monarchist who served as Emperor Guangxu’s advisor during the Hundred Days Reform of 1898, he has been discussed in previous scholarship largely as a political figure. Less well known are his achievements in calligraphy and calligraphy theory (he wrote the most comprehensive and widely-read guide to the Stele School in his day), as well as his efforts in making art a powerful instrument for national transformation. He advocated East-West synthesis, especially the adoption of Renaissance plasticity and Song Dynasty-style verisimilitude. This book evaluates his extensive and controversial impact on pictorial realism in a variety of genres: human figures, horses, landscapes, and bird-and-flower subjects (the last developing in close step with Japanese trends). Besides providing an objective assessment of his legacy in the art world, The Other Kang Youwei offers a rare integrated treatment of Chinese calligraphy, painting, and art theory of the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wong, Aida Yuen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Aida Yuen Wong, Ph.D. (1999), Columbia University, is Associate Professor of Asian Art at Brandeis University, U.S.A. Among her many publications are Parting the Mists: Discovering Japan and the Rise of National-Style Painting in Modern China (2006) and the edited volume Visualizing Beauty: Gender and Ideology in Modern East Asia, ca. 1900-1940s (2012).