Search for all the strange peaks - Compendium of Chinese Landscape Painting 25

Author: Huang Jian
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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 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 effect 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 manner, presenting a relatively complete and systematic review. What it reveals is not only the process of the emergence and development of landscape painting, not only the trajectory of the artists and artistic works associated with it, but also the cultural soil on which it stands, as well as the subtle and ever-evolving relationship between each generation of people who need landscape painting and the painting itself. For ease of reading and use, the entire book is organized along the timeline of landscape painting development as the longitude and the fluctuation of value forms as the latitude, divided into thirty-four volumes, each independently a chapter yet interconnected and resonant. This volume, Gathering All the Extraordinary Peaks, is the twenty-fifth, focusing on the artistic styles of the landscape paintings of Mei Qing and Shi Tao in the early Qing Dynasty.