C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3777441031 ISBN 13: 9783777441030

Publisher: Hirmer, 2023

Synopsis

C.C. Wang (1907–2003) is best known as a preeminent twentieth-century connoisseur and collector of pre-modern Chinese art, a reputation that often overshadows his own art. Lines of Abstraction brings attention to Wang’s artistic experimentations. Spanning seven decades, the catalog focuses on the artist’s distinctive synthesis of Chinese literati ink art and American postwar abstraction.

Born to a family of scholar-officials at the twilight of the Qing dynasty, Wang mastered the traditional ink and brush techniques in Republican China and immigrated to New York City. There he sought to perfect the literati painting, a genre associated with Chinese artist-intellectuals that blends calligraphy, painting, and poetry. Drawing inspiration from this historic art form, as well as New York’s artistic climate in the wake of World War II, he advanced breakthrough transformations in ink painting. Held twenty years after the artist’s death, a 2023 exhibit of Wang’s art was hosted by two venues, one at Hunter College and the second at the University of Minnesota. This exhibition catalog includes one hundred color images and features contributions by Daniel Greenberg and Joseph Scheier-Dolberg.

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About the Author

Wen-shing Chou is associate professor of Chinese art history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain.

Daniel Greenberg is assistant professor of Chinese art history at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Greenberg specializes in the artistic and cultural exchange in early modern China and its relationship to Europe and neighboring countries such as Tibet, Mongolia, and Japan.

From the Back Cover

C. C. Wang (1907-2003) ist in erster Linie als herausragender Kenner und Sammler chinesischer Kunst der Vormoderne des 20. Jahrhunderts bekannt - ein Renommee, hinter dem sein eigenes künstlerisches Schaffen oft in Vergessenheit gerät. Der Band beleuchtet Wangs außerordentliche Karriere nun im Licht seiner Werke und enthüllt sein eigentliches Streben nach Tradition und Innovation im globalen 20. Jahrhundert.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hirmer
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3777441031
• ISBN 13: 9783777441030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Chou Wen-Shing, Greenberg Daniel M.