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Commemorative Landscape Painting in China (Paperback): Anne De Coursey Clapp

Commemorative Landscape Painting in China (Paperback)

Anne De Coursey Clapp

Series: Publications of the Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University

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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.

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Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Publications of the Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University
Release date: July 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: Anne De Coursey Clapp
Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-15476-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Oriental art
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General
LSN: 0-691-15476-7
Barcode: 9780691154763

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