Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting

by Yi Gu

Book Overview

How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic perception of modern Chinese painters reveal about the relationship between artists and the nation-state? Could an understanding of modern Chinese landscape painting tell us something previously unknown about art, political change, and the epistemological and sensory regime of twentieth-century China? Yi Gu tackles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674244443
• ISBN13: 9780674244443
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages