Framing Famous Mountains: Grand Tour and Mingshan Paintings in Sixteenth-century China - Hardcover

Fu, Flora Li-Tsui

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9629963299 ISBN 13: 9789629963293

Publisher: Chinese University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Mingsha, which literally means "famous mountains", refers to a group of mountains in China that have been set apart for special veneration since ancient times. Over the centuries, the "famous mountains" as a conceptual term has been continually (re)invented, (re)framed and (re)appropriated by different ideological systems. Treating landscape painting as yet another framing system, in both the symbolic and material sense, this book examines sixteenth-century paintings of famous mountains by three major artists in the light of a diachronic account of the evolution of famous mountains over time and a synchronic account of the vogue for the grand tour in late Ming society.

The author adopts a cultural approach in describing the significance of paintings of famous mountains in late Ming and delves into the cultural imagery of famous mountains and their pictorial representation and artistic presentation. This book helps the reader understand Chinese landscape painting from a new and refreshing perspective.

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About the Author

Flora Li-tsui Fu is Associate Professor of Humanities at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prior to that, she taught nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chinese painting at the Institute of Art Studies, National Central University, Taiwan. Her research interests include twentieth-century Chinese painting, Ming and Qing painting, and topographical painting.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chinese University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9629963299
• ISBN 13: 9789629963293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350