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Spirit Stones - The Ancient Art of the Scholar's Rock (Hardcover)
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Spirit Stones - The Ancient Art of the Scholar's Rock (Hardcover)
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Renowned photographer Jonathan M. Singer presents his striking
black-and-white images of Chinese ornamental rocks from a leading
collection. Shaped by nature and selected by man, scholars' rocks,
or gongshi, have been prized by Chinese intellectuals since the
Tang dynasty, and are now sought after by Western collectors as
well. They are a natural subject for the photographer Jonathan M.
Singer, most recently acclaimed for his images of those other
remarkable hybrids of art and nature, Japanese bonsai. Here Singer
turns his lens on some 140 fine gongshi, ancient and modern, from
the world-class collection of Kemin Hu, a recognized authority on
this art form. In his photographs, Singer captures the spiritual
qualities of these stones as never thought possible in two
dimensions. He shows us that scholars' rocks truly are, in Hu's
words, "condensations of the vital essence and energy of heaven and
earth." Hu contributes an introductory essay on the history and
aesthetics of scholars' rocks, explaining the traditional terms of
stone appreciation, such as shou (thin), zhou (wrinkled), lou
(channels), and tou (holes). She also provides a narrative caption
for each stone, describing its history and characteristics. Spirit
Stones forms a trilogy with Singer's two previous books, Botanica
Magnifica and Fine Bonsai. In these volumes, he has established a
new style of photography that blends the tonal richness and
chiaroscuro of Old Master painting with a scientific clarity of
detail; they represent a lasting achievement.
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