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Cargando... The painter's practice : how artists lived and worked in traditional Chinapor James Cahill
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In The Painter's Practice, James Cahill reveals the intricacies of the painter's life with respect to payment and patronage--an approach that is still largely absent from the study of East Asian art. Drawing upon such unofficial archival sources as diaries and letters, Cahill challenges the traditional image of the disinterested amateur scholar-artist, unconcerned with material rewards, that has been developed by China's literati, perpetuated in conventional biographies, and abetted by the artists themselves. His work fills in the hitherto unexplored social and economic contexts in which painters worked, revealing the details of how painters in China actually made their living from the sixteenth century onward. Considering the marketplace as well as the studio, Cahill reviews the practices and working conditions of artists outside the Imperial Court such as the employment of assistants and the use of sketchbooks and prints by earlier artists for sources of motifs. As loose, flamboyant brushwork came into vogue, Cahill argues, these highly imitable styles ironically facilitated the forger's task, flooding the market with copies, sometimes commissioned and signed by the artists themselves. In tracing the great shift from seeing the painting as a picture to a concentration on the painter's hand, Cahill challenges the archetype of the scholar-artist and provides an enlightened perspective that profoundly changes the way we interpret familiar paintings. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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For my part, I love James Cahill's work and only wish I had been fortunate enough to study under him. That said, this was undoubtedly a wonderful lecture series, but was a bit repetitive as a book and the black & white photographs were such a disappointment (even though most of the paintings were ink drawings, one still needs to see those slight colour washes and the colour of the background silk, etc.).
If you're serious about Chinese art, you need to read this volume to blow away some of those platitudes one has heard or read about the 'amateur status' of literati artists. Everyone needs to eat. And like all Cahill works, be sure to read the footnotes; they're loaded with valuable information. The bibliography is also excellent and provides the perfect leads into your next 'want to reads'. Do pull out and re-read any of the referenced works you might have that are listed in the footnotes; you will get double the value out of them re-reading them in the context of this volume (for example, Cahill's chapter on the Confucian influence in Chinese paintings in [b:The Confucian Persuasion|7455905|The Confucian Persuasion|Arthur Wright|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1404591713s/7455905.jpg|9504455]).
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