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Cargando... Zhao Mengfu: Calligraphy and Painting for Khubilai's Chinapor Shane McCausland
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Zhao Mengfu has enormous significance for Chinese art history. This work presents a new, synthetic portrait of the artist's development from the 1280s to his death in 1322, and evaluates his pivotal role in the social-political context in Yuan China as well as the development of the artist's self-consciousness. Shane McCausland's study features detailed interpretation of pictorial forms in light of historical changes, and close readings of critical colophons, many appended to artworks, but neglected as visual sources. These readings are meant to stimulate visual analysis of the oeuvre as well as debate about the use of Tang (618-907) and other period modes as models for the 'Yuan renaissance'. The book challenges stereotypes portraying Zhao Mengfu as a traitor or careerist. The historical background of dynastic change and Mongol rule is treated in a revisionist manner that aims to contextualize the traditional Chinese hostility towards Zhao Mengfu as a Yuan scholar-official. The concern here is for his development, in the context of Mongol rule, as a Chinese scholar-artist. This book is a must for scholars, curators and other specialists in Chinese painting and calligraphy, especially those focusing on Yuan dynasty and literati painting. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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My biggest disappointment was a shortage of material on his wife (Guan Daosheng), who is believed to have been a major contributor not only to his life but also to many of his works. Both are credited with the scroll in the Palace Museum in Beijing known as 'Elegance Emerging from a Bamboo Thicket' dated 1321, as well as several other works. A renowned calligrapher as well as artist, she is remembered in women's studies as the poet who upon receiving a poem from her husband revealing his musing over taking a concubine, responded with a poem of her own entitled 'Song of Me and You' (he changed his mind). Some scholars consider her "the most famous female painter in Chinese history", so a little more of her contribution to her husband's life and works seemed in order. But to be fair to author McCausland, Chinese history was recorded by men so to even have her name known today is a minor miracle.
Not for the casual reader, nor someone looking for an introduction to Yuan art, as it assumes a familiarity with 12th century political-historical as well as art-history leitmotifs, but for someone who has a fairly good background in Chinese history and is looking for insights into the life and times of the aristocracy and literati of the period, and of course of the artist Zhao Mengfu himself. (