Painting Architecture

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Comprehensive research on a unique painting genre from fourteenth-century China In Painting Architecture, Leqi Yu conducts comprehensive research on jiehua, or ruled-line painting, a unique painting genre in fourteenth-century China. This genre relies on tools like rulers to represent architectural details and structures accurately. Such technical consideration and mechanical perfection linked this painting category with the builder’s art, which led to the belittling of Chinese elites and eventually won the admiration of Mongol patrons. Yu argues that painters in the Yuan dynasty made new efforts towards a unique modular system and an unsurpassable plain-drawing tradition. She argues that these two strategies made architectural paintings in the Yuan dynasty entirely different from their predecessors, as well as making the art form extremely difficult for subsequent painters to imitate.
  Leqi Yu is a scholar of art history and East Asian languages and civilizations.
 

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Concept of Jiehua
Why the Mongol Yuan?
Xia Yong: A Neglected Jiehua Master
1. Painting and Architecture
Dilemma: The Yellow Crane Tower or the Yellow Pavilion?
Modularity in Xia Yong’s Art
Utility and Artistry
2. Painting and Painter
Wang Zhenpeng and His Lineage
Baimiao: The Power of Ink and Line
Landscape in Jiehua: Late-Yuan Literati Style versus Northern Song Li-Guo Style
3. Painting and Politics
Direct Appointments: Based on Emperors’ Interest in Complex Constructions
Elegant Gatherings: The Interactions between Southern Scholars and Northern Officials
Conclusion
The Professional Atelier: An Alternative Interpretation of Xia Yong’s Jiehua
The Art Market: The Cultural Values of Buildings Painted
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Painting Architecture

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$90.00

SKU: 9789888754236 Category:
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Comprehensive research on a unique painting genre from fourteenth-century China In Painting Architecture, Leqi Yu conducts comprehensive research on jiehua, or ruled-line painting, a unique painting genre in fourteenth-century China. This genre relies on tools like rulers to represent architectural details and structures accurately. Such technical consideration and mechanical perfection linked this painting category with the builder’s art, which led to the belittling of Chinese elites and eventually won the admiration of Mongol patrons. Yu argues that painters in the Yuan dynasty made new efforts towards a unique modular system and an unsurpassable plain-drawing tradition. She argues that these two strategies made architectural paintings in the Yuan dynasty entirely different from their predecessors, as well as making the art form extremely difficult for subsequent painters to imitate.
  Leqi Yu is a scholar of art history and East Asian languages and civilizations.
 

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Concept of Jiehua
Why the Mongol Yuan?
Xia Yong: A Neglected Jiehua Master
1. Painting and Architecture
Dilemma: The Yellow Crane Tower or the Yellow Pavilion?
Modularity in Xia Yong’s Art
Utility and Artistry
2. Painting and Painter
Wang Zhenpeng and His Lineage
Baimiao: The Power of Ink and Line
Landscape in Jiehua: Late-Yuan Literati Style versus Northern Song Li-Guo Style
3. Painting and Politics
Direct Appointments: Based on Emperors’ Interest in Complex Constructions
Elegant Gatherings: The Interactions between Southern Scholars and Northern Officials
Conclusion
The Professional Atelier: An Alternative Interpretation of Xia Yong’s Jiehua
The Art Market: The Cultural Values of Buildings Painted
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Dimensions 1 × 6 × 9 in

Painting Architecture

0 out of 5

$90.00

SKU: 9789888754236 Category:
Title Range Discount
Trade Discount 5 + 25%

Description

Comprehensive research on a unique painting genre from fourteenth-century China In Painting Architecture, Leqi Yu conducts comprehensive research on jiehua, or ruled-line painting, a unique painting genre in fourteenth-century China. This genre relies on tools like rulers to represent architectural details and structures accurately. Such technical consideration and mechanical perfection linked this painting category with the builder’s art, which led to the belittling of Chinese elites and eventually won the admiration of Mongol patrons. Yu argues that painters in the Yuan dynasty made new efforts towards a unique modular system and an unsurpassable plain-drawing tradition. She argues that these two strategies made architectural paintings in the Yuan dynasty entirely different from their predecessors, as well as making the art form extremely difficult for subsequent painters to imitate.
  Leqi Yu is a scholar of art history and East Asian languages and civilizations.
 

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Concept of Jiehua
Why the Mongol Yuan?
Xia Yong: A Neglected Jiehua Master
1. Painting and Architecture
Dilemma: The Yellow Crane Tower or the Yellow Pavilion?
Modularity in Xia Yong’s Art
Utility and Artistry
2. Painting and Painter
Wang Zhenpeng and His Lineage
Baimiao: The Power of Ink and Line
Landscape in Jiehua: Late-Yuan Literati Style versus Northern Song Li-Guo Style
3. Painting and Politics
Direct Appointments: Based on Emperors’ Interest in Complex Constructions
Elegant Gatherings: The Interactions between Southern Scholars and Northern Officials
Conclusion
The Professional Atelier: An Alternative Interpretation of Xia Yong’s Jiehua
The Art Market: The Cultural Values of Buildings Painted
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

Dimensions 1 × 6 × 9 in