The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll
Auteur: Shane McCausland
Nombre de pages: 296 pages
ISBN: 1789148340, 9781789148343
Edition: Reaktion Books
Date de publication: Reaktion Books
Description: The first extended history of the Chinese picture-scroll. The Chinese picture-scroll, a long, horizontal painting or calligraphic work, has been China’s pre-eminent aesthetic form throughout the last two millennia. This first history of the picture-scroll explores its extraordinary longevity and adaptability to social, political, and technological change. The book describes what the picture-scroll demands of a viewer, how China’s artists grappled with its cultural power, and how collectors and connoisseurs left their marks on scrolls for later generations to judge.