Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll - Hardcover
This volume contains twenty-one fully illustrated papers by contributors to an international colloquy held in June 2001, jointly organised by the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art and the British Museum. It consitutes full publication of an iconic early major masterwork of Chinese figure painting which has been in the British Museum since 1903 but is rarely on display for conservation reasons. The illustrations make use of new high-quality digital photography of every aspect of the world-famous scroll.
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Shane McCausland is a lecturer in the Department of Art and Archaeology in the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. He was previously a Visiting Scholar at the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, where in 2001 he organized with the British Museum the international colloquium on The Admonitions Scroll. After completing his doctorate at Princeton University he was a Research Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has lectured and published on early modern Chinese painting and calligraphy.
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- PublisherBritish Museum Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0714124141
- ISBN 13 9780714124148
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages336
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 336 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 29 cm. Contents: Preface / Shane McCausland -- Text and Translation of Zhang Hua's Poem, 'Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies' ('Nüshi zhen') -- Introduction: The Admonitions Scroll and Chinese Art History / Wen C. Fong -- Part 1: Kingship, the Way and Art: A Study of the Date of the Admonitions Scroll Based on Landscape Portrayal / Yang Xin -- Creating Ancestors / Audrey Spiro -- Concerning the Date and Authorship of the Admonitions Handscroll / Richard M. Barnhart -- The Admonitions Scroll Revisited: Iconology, Narratology, Style, Dating / Wu Hung -- Who Was Zhang Hua's 'Instructress'? / Julia K. Murray -- Refiguring: The Visual Rhetoric of the Sixth-Century Northern Wei 'Filial Piety' Engravings / Eugene Y. Wang -- Remarks of a Later Female Historian / Michael Nylan. Part 2: Gu Kaizhi and the Literati Tradition: The Admonitions Scroll in the British Museum: New Light on the Text-Image Relationships, Painting Style and Dating Problem / Chen Pao-chen -- The Convergence of Gu Kaizhi and Admonitions in the Literary Record / Alfreda Murck -- The Admonitions Scroll: a Song Version / Yu Hui -- 'Like the gossamer thread of a spring silkworm' -- Gu Kaizhi in the Yuan Renaissance / Shane McCausland -- The Evolving Significance of Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions of the Court Instructress / Maxwell K. Hearn -- Part 3: The Treasure of Empires: Beyond the Admonitions Scroll: A Study of its Mounting, Seals and Inscriptions / Wang Yao-t'ing -- A 'Cultural Biography' of the Admonitions Scroll: The Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries / Stephen Little -- Late Ming Collectors and Connoisseurs, and the Making of the Modern Concept of 'Gu Kaizhi' / Yin Ji'nan. The Admonitions Scroll in the Context of Ming Aesthetics and Collecting: Material Artefact, Cultural Biography and Cultural Imagining / Cary Y. Liu -- A 'Cultural Biography' of the Admonitions Scroll: The Qianlong Reign (1736-1795) / Nixi Cura -- The Nineteenth-Century Provenance of the Admonitions Scroll: A Hypothesis / Zhang Hongxing -- The Admonitions Scroll in the Twentieth Century / Charles Mason -- The Admonitions Scroll in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Discussant's Remarks / Craig Clunas -- The Conservation History and Condition of the Admonitions Scroll / Sydney Thomson -- Chronology of Chinese Dynasties -- Chronology of the Admonitions Scroll in the British Museum. Seller Inventory # PGPDF01
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