The world around the Chinese artist : aspects of realism in Chinese painting / Richard Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Richard, 1916-2016.

Series:

Michigan classics in Chinese studies ; no. 2.

Distinguished senior faculty lecture series

Michigan classics in Chinese studies ; no. 2

The Distinguished senior faculty lecture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape painting, Chinese.

Ink painting, Chinese.

Realism in art--China.

Realism in art.

China.

Physical Description:

155 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, MI : Center for Chinese Studies, [2000]

Summary:

In this series of lectures on the painters Hsia Kuei (twelfth-thirteenth centuries), Shen Chou (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries), and Shih-t'ao (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries), Richard Edwards explores the special relationship between the self and landscape in Chinese art. These three painters, each important in his own time and deemed a master by later critics, were all concerned with the subjective in the objective world. In Chinese painting there is no clear desire to separate these two realms; rather, there is a constant, conscious play between the physical reality of the world and the subjective vision of the artist. The artist is continually imitating the world -- sometimes more, sometimes less -- but he never denies its appearance to the point of total abstraction; nor, in the other extreme, does he claim for the physical world an existence independent of his own involvement.

Notes:

"This book presents the 1984-85 Distinguished Senior Faculty Lecture Series of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts."

Originally published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-154).

ISBN:

0892641436

OCLC:

44467429