Shanshui: Landscape in Contemporary Chinese Art (Contemporary Works from the Sigg Collection / Zeitgenossische Werke Aus Der Sammlung Sigg)

Britta Erickson; Hu Mingyuan; Uli Sigg

ISBN 10: 377572849X / ISBN 13: 9783775728492

Edité par Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2011

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Hardcover with illustrated boards and gilt-stamped lettering. Illustrated throughout, primarily in colour, featuring some full-page images. Text in English and German. Light pencil marks to some pages. Otherwise clean, unmarked, and square. Oblong 4to.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Shanshui: Landscape in Contemporary Chinese Art (Contemporary Works from the Sigg Collection / Zeitgenossische Werke Aus Der Sammlung Sigg)
• Éditeur: Hatje Cantz, Germany
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 377572849X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783775728492
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • CHINESE ART

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Synopsis

Shanshui, the Chinese word for landscape, is a compound of the two symbols for mountain and water, indispensable elements of historical shanshui painting. Its significance lies more in its transformational potential for connecting the individual to the world than in the accurate rendering of a particular landscape. Even in contemporary art in China, which is dominated by the human figure and supposedly liberated from the burden of tradition, there are more or less obvious elements of traditional mountain-water painting, which is deeply rooted in the nation's culture.\nThis publication was conceived in collaboration with Ai Weiwei-probably China's best-known contemporary artist-and it strikes an arc from selected historical shanshui paintings to important protagonists of contemporary Chinese art. The volume groups the works according to specific characteristics, such as the manipulation of traditional source materials and philosophical concepts, experiments with new media, or photography as a mode of expression essentially related to the "one brushstroke" propagated by Shi Tao, the seventeenth-century Chinese master.