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OverviewComprehensive research on a unique painting genre from fourteenth-century China In Painting Architecture, Leqi Yu conducts comprehensive research on jiehua, or ruled-line painting, a unique painting genre in fourteenth-century China. This genre relies on tools like rulers to represent architectural details and structures accurately. Such technical consideration and mechanical perfection linked this painting category with the builder's art, which led to the belittling of Chinese elites and eventually won the admiration of Mongol patrons. Yu argues that painters in the Yuan dynasty made new efforts towards a unique modular system and an unsurpassable plain-drawing tradition. She argues that these two strategies made architectural paintings in the Yuan dynasty entirely different from their predecessors, as well as making the art form extremely difficult for subsequent painters to imitate. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Leqi YuPublisher: Hong Kong University Press Imprint: Hong Kong University Press ISBN: 9789888754236ISBN 10: 9888754238 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 15 September 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""Architecture has been a subject of Chinese painting for two millennia, but has remained elusive. Painting Architecture explains the reasons as well as why the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries are pivotal. The book also translates the vast writings on architectural painting, places the paintings in historical context, and assesses the relation between the paintings and actual buildings. The superior scholarship and original interpretation ensure that paintings of architecture will be part of future discourse about Chinese painting."" --Nancy Steinhardt, professor, University of Pennsylvania ""Focusing on the development of jiehua in the fourteenth century when the Mongols ruled China, Yu's book raises issues beyond the field of painting history, including architectural history, aesthetics, and social-historical studies. It is a long-awaited contribution to a rarely studied painting genre and an admirable accomplishment of multidisciplinary research on Chinese art."" --Qianshen Bai, associate professor emeritus, Boston University" Author InformationLeqi Yu is a scholar of art history and East Asian languages and civilizations. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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