The art of the Chinese picture-scroll / Shane McCausland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCausland, Shane, 1968- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scrolls, Chinese.

Painting, Chinese.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2023.

Summary:

The Chinese picture-scroll, a long painting or calligraphic work held within a horizontal scrolling mount, has been China's pre-eminent aesthetic format for the last two millennia. This first extended history of the picture-scroll explores its extraordinary longevity, and its adaptability to social, political and technological change. The book describes what the picture-scroll demands of a viewer, how China's artists grappled with its cultural power, and how collectors and connoisseurs have left their marks on scrolls for later generations to judge. The return to mass appeal of scrolling -- a media technology that seemed long outdated yet persists in our digital age -- provides urgent and fascinating context to this book. -- from book jacket.

Contents:

On origins and uses over the first millennium

Inscribing the artist and the collector : the picture-scroll in the Song-Liao-Jin period

Handscrolls in Mongol palaces

Musing on shadows : reading the Ming picture-scroll

Qing : reading the 'Baroque' handscroll

Modernist uses of the Chinese picture-scroll

The medium of silent poetry in the late modern world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1789147964

9781789147964

OCLC:

1373834892