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Chinese Painting and Its Audiences (Hardcover, Bollingen Series XXXV: 61)
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Chinese Painting and Its Audiences (Hardcover, Bollingen Series XXXV: 61)
Series: Bollingen Series
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What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the
different associations of this term in China and the West? In
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W.
Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of
Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of
artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them
discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese
painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five
centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Richly illustrated,
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences demonstrates that viewers in
China and beyond have irrevocably shaped this great artistic
tradition. Arguing that audiences within China were crucially
important to the evolution of Chinese painting, Clunas considers
how Chinese artists have imagined the reception of their own work.
By examining paintings that depict people looking at paintings, he
introduces readers to ideal types of viewers: the scholar, the
gentleman, the merchant, the nation, and the people. In discussing
the changing audiences for Chinese art, Clunas emphasizes that the
diversity and quantity of images in Chinese culture make it
impossible to generalize definitively about what constitutes
Chinese painting. Exploring the complex relationships between works
of art and those who look at them, Chinese Painting and Its
Audiences sheds new light on how the concept of Chinese painting
has been formed and reformed over hundreds of years.
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