The Landscape Painting of China: Musings of a Journeyman (Cofrin Asian Art Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (877 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081303793X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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In terms of its broad scope and visual analytic insight, no single-author book on Chinese painting like this has been published in many decades. He studied at the University of Chicago, under one of the greatest of the first generation of Asian art historians, Ludwig Bachhofer. The graphic elements that make up the great landscape painting of China have never been made so accessible to a Western audience. Upon his return to the University of Chicago in 1959, he worked as Bachhofer's successor, teaching generations of graduate students how to see. Father Vanderstappen had unique training: initially in Europe prior to World War II, then studying Chinese art and culture first-hand in Beijing prior to the Communist Revolution. He also published important works on Chinese painting and sculpture, as well as a comprehensive book-length bibliography of Western scholarship on Chinese art and archaeol
Dorothy Blair said This book lives up to its name - its full of Chinese landscape paintings.. A nice book with lots of pictures of pretty paintings. Unfortunately the photos are dark and downright dreary. I wish they had lightened them a little as they printed them.
The graphic elements that make up the great landscape painting of China have never been made so accessible to a Western audience. He also published important works on Chinese painting and sculpture, as well as a comprehensive book-length bibliography of Western scholarship on Chinese art and archaeology. After receiving his PhD in art history in 1955, Vanderstappen travelled to Japan, where he learned Japanese, examined Chinese paintings, and worked with many of the great postwar Japanese scholars. He studied at the University of Chicago, under one of the greatest of the first generation of Asian art historians, Ludwig Bachhofer. In it, Chinese landscape painting is explored from the emergence of monumental landscape painting in the ninth century through the artistic transformations of the early seventeenth century. All of his teachings were informed by an exceptionally broad and deep knowledge of cultural and historical contexts, to which his outstanding language skills gave him access.Filled with revelatory insights into the origin and purposes of Chinese landscape painting, this gloriously illustrated volume boasts more than 240 full-color plates, including a great many detailed images that bring Professor Vanderstappen’s detailed visual analysis
Vanderstappen (1921–2007) was for over 30 years professor of art history at the University of Chicago, where he taught Chinese and Asian art history. Father Harrie A. In addition to his teaching and scholarly work, he spent decades in Chicago ministering to the poor and needy. Roger E. A life-long member of the Society of the Divine Word, a global Catholic missionary order, he was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1945. Covey (1954&s