Chinese painting lineage

Author: Shao Qi
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Chinese painting is one of the most representative concrete cultural forms in Chinese culture. Therefore, the existence and evolution of Chinese painting can largely be seen as a of the existence and evolution of Chinese culture. The understanding of some typical phenomena in Chinese painting, such as the pursuit and creation of artistic conception in Chinese painting, why landscape painting has become a major category in Chinese painting, and how literati painting, which is "non-teachable yet achievable," came into being, in my opinion, must be based on grasping the context of the existence and evolution of Chinese painting—its continuity—to have practical and objective descriptions. This book is divided into seven parts: Contextual Continuity, Sacred Tradition, Self-Cultivation, Private State, etc. The author attempts to trace the context of Chinese painting to find the causes of a series of unique phenomena and developments in the history of painting.