Chinese painting and its audiences
By: Craig Clunas
Series: The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts -- 2012; Bollingen series -- XXXV : volume 61; A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts -- 2012.; Bollingen series -- 35:61.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780691171937
Subjects: Appreciation; Chinese Painting
Description: "What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Richly illustrated, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences demonstrates that viewers in China and beyond have irrevocably shaped this great artistic tradition. Arguing that audiences within China were crucially important to the evolution of Chinese painting, Clunas considers how Chinese artists have imagined the reception of their own work. By examining paintings that depict people looking at paintings, he introduces readers to ideal types of viewers: the scholar, the gentleman, the merchant, the nation, and the people"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 237-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginning and ending; title: The gentleman; title: The emperor; title: The merchant; title: The nation; title: The people.