Imperial Tourist Attractions

Author: Shao Yan
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Landscape painting is a unique product of Chinese civilization. For over a thousand years, it has served as a major category of Chinese painting and a of its artistic achievements, as well as an important way for Chinese people to contemplate nature, articulate the world, and carry its conceptual meaning. With its distinct cultural character and rich expressive forms, it has participated in the construction of the artistic spirit and humanistic atmosphere of the Chinese nation. Since the 20th century, with the profound social changes, although the cultural penetration of landscape painting has weakened, it still provides and continuously nourishes the values and forms for later generations. It deeply embeds itself in the contemporary era through its dual effect on both the artistic context and the cognitive structure of individuals. The Compendium of Chinese Landscape Painting organizes this vibrant and diverse history of landscape painting in a systematic and systematic manner through the convergence of images and text. What it reveals is not only the developmental process of landscape painting, not only the trajectory of the artists and artworks associated with it, but also the cultural soil on which it thrives, as well as the subtle and ever-evolving relationship between each generation that engages with landscape painting and the painting itself. For ease of reading and use, the entire work is organized along the temporal sequence of landscape painting development as the longitude and the fluctuation of value forms as the latitude, divided into thirty-four volumes, each independently complete yet interrelated and responsive. This volume, Splendor of the Imperial Realm, is the twenty-eighth, primarily discussing the court landscape painting of the early Qing Dynasty.