"Jiehuailouge - Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Chinese Landscape Painting 11"

Author: Peng Cai
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
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 observe 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, with the profound changes in society, the cultural penetration of landscape painting has weakened to some extent, but it continues to provide and nourish the values and forms for later generations. It still deeply embeds itself in the contemporary 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 an illustrated and systematic manner. It not only reveals the process of the emergence and development of landscape painting, but also traces the evolution of artists and artistic works associated with it. Moreover, it connects the cultural soil on which landscape painting thrives and the subtle, ever-evolving relationship between generations 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 complete yet interrelated and responsive. This book, Architectural Landscape Painting, is the eleventh volume, focusing on the development and stylistic evolution of architectural landscape painting and palace-garden landscapes throughout history.