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The efficacious landscape : on the authorities of painting at the Northern Song court / Foong Ping.

Title
The efficacious landscape : on the authorities of painting at the Northern Song court / Foong Ping.
Author
Foong, Leong Ping
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2015.

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Description
xxi, 295 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
Summary
"Ink landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and painters of this era produced some of the most celebrated artworks in Chinese history. The Efficacious Landscape addresses how landmark works of this pivotal period first came to be identified as potent symbols of imperial authority and later became objects through which exiled scholars expressed disaffection and dissent. In fulfilling these diverse roles, landscape demonstrated its efficacy in communicating through embodiment and in transcending the limitations of the concrete. Building on decades of monographic writings on Song painting, this carefully researched study presents a syncretic vision of how ink landscape evolved within the eleventh-century court community of artists, scholars, and aristocrats. Detailed visual analyses of surviving works and new insight about key landscapes by the court painter Guo Xi support the perspective put forward here and introduce original methodologies for interpreting painting as an integral element of political and cultural history. By focusing on the efforts of emperors, empresses, and eunuchs to cultivate ink landscape and its iconography, this investigation also tackles the social and class dichotomies that have long defined and frustrated existing scholarship on this period's paintings, highlighting instead the interconnectedness of painting practice's elite modalities."--Publisher's description.
Series Statement
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 372
Uniform Title
Harvard East Asian monographs 372.
Subject
  • 960-1368
  • Landscape painting, Chinese > Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368
  • Ink painting, Chinese > Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368
  • Peinture de paysages chinoise > 960-1368 (Dynasties des Song et des Yuan)
  • Peinture à l'encre chinoise > 960-1368 (Dynasties des Song et des Yuan)
  • Ink painting, Chinese > Song-Yuan dynasties
  • Landscape painting, Chinese > Song-Yuan dynasties
  • Landschaftsmalerei
  • Nördliche Songdynastie
  • China
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ink landscape in the imperial city -- The ritual context for painting -- Ink landscape as cultural capital at court -- Guo Xi's intimate landscapes -- The small canon.
ISBN
  • 9780674417151
  • 0674417151
LCCN
  • 2014011657
  • 40025044566
OCLC
  • 875056161
  • SCSB-11888350
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library