Research Catalog

Title

Handheld landscapes : the four seasons in Chinese paintings from the Birmingham Museum of Art / edited by Katherine Anne Paul ; contributions by Donald A. Wood, Richard A. Pegg, Kayi Ho, Doris Sung.

Author

Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.), creator, issuing body, host institution. https://isni.org/isni/000000012106655X

Publication

• Birmingham, Alabama : Birmingham Museum of Art, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Paul, Katherine Anne
• Wood, Donald Alan
• Pegg, Richard A.
• Ho, Kayi
• Sung, Doris

Description

128 pages : illustrations (some colour); 28 cm

Summary

Through the lens of the four seasons?spring, summer, autumn, and winter?this exhibition explores the intimate visual storytelling experience found within small-scale Chinese landscape paintings. Whether formatted in a popular fan shape, as an album leaf, a handscroll, or a glossy ceramic, the paintings featured in this exhibition were intended to be studied up-close and to be handled. Many of the paintings combine detailed images and the elevated art form of calligraphy with inscriptions that describe painting styles, provide dedication to friends and family, and offer the date when the work was made. Journey through the seasons, from the blossoming peach trees and greening mountains of spring to the pillowy surfaces of newly fallen snow in a winter landscape, in this charming exhibition of Chinese painting.00Exhibition: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, USA (03.09.2022-05.03.2023).

Subject

• Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.) > Exhibitions
• Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.) > Catalogs
• Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.)
• Painting, Chinese > Exhibitions
• Painting, Chinese > Catalogs
• Seasons in art > Exhibitions
• Landscapes in art > Exhibitions
• Landscapes in art
• Painting, Chinese
• Seasons in art

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition Hand-Held, The Four Seasons in Chinese Paintings, organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, September 3, 2022 - March 5, 2023.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Director's Foreword / Graham C. Boettcher, Ph.D. -- Chairman's Preface / Sanjay Singh, Ph.D. -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction / Katherine Anne Paul, Ph.D. -- Chapter 2: Insights into Acquisition / Donald A. Wood, Ph.D. -- Chapter 3: Intimate Settings: Nexuses of People, Places and Moments / Richard A. Pegg, Ph.D. -- Chapter 4: Learning from Old Masters: An Aspect of the Guangdong Paintings in the Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art / Kayi Ho, Ph.D. -- Chapter 5: Flowers of the Four Seasons: Women Artists in Late Imperial China / Doris Sung, Ph.D. -- Handheld Landscapes: The Four Seasons in Chinese Paintings -- Spring -- Summer -- Autumn -- Winter -- Appendix A: Looking at the Layers of a Chinese Landscape Painting -- Appendix B: Map -- Appendix C: Artist Biographies -- Select Biography -- Index -- Contributor Biographies

Call Number

JQF 24-438

ISBN

• 9781934774267
• 193477426X

OCLC

1371838978

Author

Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.), creator, issuing body, host institution.

Title

Handheld landscapes : the four seasons in Chinese paintings from the Birmingham Museum of Art / edited by Katherine Anne Paul ; contributions by Donald A. Wood, Richard A. Pegg, Kayi Ho, Doris Sung.

Publisher

Birmingham, Alabama : Birmingham Museum of Art, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Paul, Katherine Anne, editor.

Wood, Donald Alan, contributor.

Pegg, Richard A., contributor.

Ho, Kayi, contributor.

Sung, Doris, contributor.

Research Call Number

JQF 24-438