Shitao
Subtitle: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China (Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780521393423
Subjects: Individual artists; Oriental art; Painting & paintings; Shitao,; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Sources; History - General; Art / General; Aesthetics; 17th/18th cent; 17th/18th cent
Description: "Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China examines the work of one of the most famous of all Chinese artists. In this study, the first wide-ranging art-historical reevaluation of Shitao (1642-1707) in almost thirty years, Jonathan Hay undertakes a social history of the artist's achievement as a painter and theorist of painting. By focusing on different social, political, biographical, economic, religious, and philosophical issues, the author reveals the full complexity of Shitao's pictorial practice. Throughout this study, Hay also argues for the modernity of Shitao's painting, showing how his work is embedded in the socioeconomic context of the seventeenth century and how it involves a redefinition of subjectivity in terms of self-consciousness, doubt, and an aspiration to autonomy."--Jacket.