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The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Ping Foong
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Description for The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Hardcover. Ink landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and Song painters created some of the most celebrated artworks in Chinese history. Foong Ping shows how landmark works of this era came to be identified first as potent symbols of imperial authority and later as objects by which exiled scholars expressed disaffection and dissent. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACBP; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 265 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1002.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674417151
SKU
V9780674417151
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About Ping Foong
Foong Ping is Foster Foundation Curator of Chinese Art at the Seattle Art Museum and Affiliated Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Washington.
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