The Art of Mu Xin – The Landscape Paintings & Prison Notes: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes (Elgar New Horizons in International Relations series) - Hardcover

Munro, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300090757 ISBN 13: 9780300090758

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Mu Xin (b. 1927) is one of the leading expatriate artist-intellectuals of our time. Now living in New York City, he is known for his complex writings and paintings. Clearly a formidable figure in the cultural and intellectual history of Chinese modernism, Mu Xin is admired for his unique synthesis of Chinese and Western aesthetic sensibilities. This beautifully illustrated catalogue focuses on a group of thirty-three landscape paintings that Mu Xin painted in 1978-79, in the immediate aftermath of the Great Cultural Revolution. Many of these works have never been exhibited or published in the West. In addition, the book features Mu Xin's Prison Notes, some sixty-six calligraphic sheets that were written when the artist was in solitary confinement in China in 1972.

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About the Author:

Alexandra Monroe is director of the Japan Society Gallery, New York. Richard Barnhart is John M. Schiff Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Yale University. Jonathan Hay is associate professor of art history, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Wu Hung is Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, University of Chicago. Toming Jun Liu is associate professor, English Department, California State University, Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0300090757
• ISBN 13: 9780300090758
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 148