Scraps from a Collector's Note Book: Being Notes on Some Chinese Painters of the Present Dynasty, with Appendices on Some Old Masters and Art Historians - Couverture souple
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<title> Scraps From A Collector's Note Book: Being Notes On Some Chinese Painters Of The Present Dynasty, With Appendices On Some Old Masters And Art Historians
<author> Friedrich Hirth
<publisher> Formerly E.J. Brill, 1905
<subjects> Painters; Painters, Chinese
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Manchu-T artars, from which a translator could make interesting or important extracts .H equotes Chang Kong sK uochau-hua-chong-lu, it is true; but he despises that source of information, because it contains no criticism, and nothing which points to a renaissance in pictorial art .T here he says, as in literature, the Chinese are content to look back upon the glories of the past. They have allowed the Japanese, once their pupils, to pass them in the race; and the decadence, which set in under theM ings, is now everywhere accepted with equanimity and resignation .B ythis somewhat sweeping criticism, which I am afraid is the outcome of an old prejudice readily accepted by many art students who have not seen as much as a dozen scrolls drawn since 1644, it seems to me poor justice is done to a class of artists who have striven just as hard as their Japanese contemporaries to grasp the spirit of the old Chinese models imitated on either side of theY ellow Sea. How far they have succeeded in this effort, we should not attempt to decide without having at least seen some of the works of their best masters. The labor invested by Prof. Giles in translating the extracts forming the main body of his book is truly Herculean and none but a fellow student who, like myself, has worked in the same field will realise the difficulties he has successfully overcome; but I cannot fall in with his complaint about lack of materials as regards the present dynasty and the conclusions he draws from it. In the voluminous native literature dealing with that period I cannot discover anything like equanimity and resignation, Of course, the great old masters are named with that respect due to them; this is precisely what we see in Japan, whose art historians will never disclaim that debt of gratitude they owe to their Chinese prototypes of the Tang, Sung and Mongol periods. But even the mo
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