Research Catalog

Title

China's southern paradise : treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta / edited by Clarissa von Spee ; with contributions by Yiwen Liu ; essays by Richard von Glahn [and 7 others].

Publication

• Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of Art, [2023]
• New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Von Spee, Clarissa
• Griswold, William
• 刘漪文 (Art historian)
• Liu, Yiwen (Art historian)
• Cleveland Museum of Art, host institution.

Description

432 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 25 x 31 cm

Summary

A survey of art from the lower Yangzi River delta that explores the region's influential role in defining Chinese art throughout history. Focusing on the artistic production and cultural impact of the lower Yangzi River delta, an area known as Jiangnan, this volume features more than 200 objects from Neolithic times through the eighteenth century that range in media from jade, silk, prints, and paintings to porcelain, lacquer, and bamboo carvings. Essays by scholars cover topics such as Jiangnan in poetry, the region's economy, silk production, southern green stoneware, landscape painting, color print production and urban culture, Buddhism, and garden culture. The essays and object entries consider how the region--home to the cities Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Nanjing, as well as hilly landscapes stretched along rivers and lakes--became the epicenter of the Chinese art scene and largely defined the image of traditional China.

Alternative Title

Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta

Subject

• Art, Chinese > China, Southeast > Exhibitions
• Art, Chinese
• Antiquities
• Yangtze River Delta (China) > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• China > Yangtze River Delta
• China
• Southeast China

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Event (note)

• Published for an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, held September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024.

Contents

Director's foreword / William M. Griswold -- Introduction / Clarissa von Spee -- Prologue: toward a definition of "Jiangnan" / Clarissa von Spee -- The creation of the cultural Jiangnan in medieval poetry / Xiaofei TIan -- Rural landscape and agrarian livelihood in Jiangnan / Richard von Glahn -- Silk production in the Lower Yangzi Delta: formation, flourishing, and later developments / Feng Zhao -- The celadons of the southeast / Shelagh Vainker -- Jiangnan's beauty: Song and Yuan paintings prized in medieval and early modern Japan / Masaaki Itakura -- Jiangnan Buddhism in time and space / Jiang Wu -- Print culture and urban life in Suzhou / Cheng-hua Wang -- The Lion Grove Garden in the Qing Dynasty: history, ownership, and legacy / Yifan Li.

Call Number

JQG 24-290

ISBN

• 030027324X
• 9780300273243

LCCN

2023946175

OCLC

1401905493

Title

China's southern paradise : treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta / edited by Clarissa von Spee ; with contributions by Yiwen Liu ; essays by Richard von Glahn [and 7 others].

Publisher

Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of Art, [2023]

Distributor

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

still image

text

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Event

Published for an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, held September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024.

Added Author

Von Spee, Clarissa, editor.

Griswold, William, writer of foreword.

Liu, Yiwen (Art historian), contributor.

Alternate Script for Added Author

刘漪文 (Art historian), contributor.

Added Author

Cleveland Museum of Art, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQG 24-290