Enter the Great Unity - Compendium of Chinese Landscape Painting 26

Author: Yin Luo
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
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 concentrated embodiment of its artistic achievements, as well as an important way for the Chinese people to contemplate nature, interpret the world, and carry its conceptual significance. With distinct cultural characteristics 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, along with the profound social changes, although the cultural penetration of landscape painting has weakened to some extent, it has still provided and continuously nourished the values and forms for later generations. It deeply influences the current era through its dual effects on both the practical artistic context and the subjective cognitive structure. Comprehensive Compendium of Chinese Landscape Painting organizes this vibrant and diverse history of landscape painting in a systematic and relatively complete manner through a combination of text and images. It not only reveals the process of the emergence and development of landscape painting, but also traces the evolution of the artists and artworks associated with it. Moreover, it connects the cultural soil on which landscape painting thrives, as well as the subtle and ever-evolving relationship between each generation of people who need landscape painting and the painting itself. To facilitate 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 volume is independently a chapter yet interconnected and resonant with one another. This book, Adhering to the Grand Unity, is the twenty-sixth volume, primarily expounding on the landscape paintings of the Four Wangs school in the early Qing Dynasty.