Research Catalog

Title

Shitao : painting and modernity in early Qing China / Jonathan Hay.

Author

Hay, Jonathan, 1956-

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Details

Description

xxiv, 412 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

"Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China examines the work of one of the most famous of all Chinese artists. In this study, the first wide-ranging art-historical reevaluation of Shitao (1642-1707) in almost thirty years, Jonathan Hay undertakes a social history of the artist's achievement as a painter and theorist of painting. By focusing on different social, political, biographical, economic, religious, and philosophical issues, the author reveals the full complexity of Shitao's pictorial practice. Throughout this study, Hay also argues for the modernity of Shitao's painting, showing how his work is embedded in the socioeconomic context of the seventeenth century and how it involves a redefinition of subjectivity in terms of self-consciousness, doubt, and an aspiration to autonomy."--Jacket.

Series Statement

RES monographs in anthropology and aesthetics

Uniform Title

RES monographs in anthropology and aesthetics.

Alternative Title

Painting and modernity in early Qing China

Subjects

• Sources
• Modernism (Art) > China
• Shitao, active 17th century-18th century > Sources
• Shitao, active 17th century-18th century > Aesthetics

Genre/Form

Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-387) and indexes.

Contents

1. Shitao, Yangzhou, and modernity -- 2. The conspicuous consumption of time -- 3. The common claim on dynastic narrative -- 4. Zhu Ruoji's destinies -- 5. The acknowledgment of origins -- 6. The Artis-Entrepreneur -- 7. Paintings as commodities -- 8. The painter's craft -- 9. Painting as praxis -- 10. The private horizon.

ISBN

0521393426 (hb)

LCCN

^^^00027757

OCLC

• 43561909
• SCSB-13868839

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library