Learning from Mount Hua : a Chinese physician's illustrated travel record and painting theory
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Learning from Mount Hua : a Chinese physician's illustrated travel record and painting theory
(RES monographs on anthropology and aesthetics)
Cambridge University Press, 1993
Available at 12 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 215-220
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Originally published in 1993, Learning from Mount Hua is a close study of a travelog written and illustrated by a late fourteenth-century Chinese physician and amateur painter, Wang Lu. Transformed by the experience of scaling Mount Hua, the Sacred Mountain of the West, Wang struggled to free himself from existing vocabularies of mountain forms and established conventions for travel painting. The final result is an album of forty unusual paintings and a moving travel record, translated here for the first time. Having reconstructed the original sequence of the paintings, Liscomb relates these landscapes to the travel record, helping the reader share Wang's experiences. Liscomb also translates the preface accompanying the Mt. Huaalbum and another of his essays on landscape painting and argues that it is necessary not only to analyse them in relation to contemporary and earlier art theories, but also in connection with Wang's writings as a medical scholar.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Foreword by Francesco Pellizi
- Acknowledgements
- Part I: Introduction
- Part II: 1. Wang Lu's travel record illustrated with his paintings
- 2. Wang Lu's 'Preface to the Second Version of the Mt. Hua Paintings'
- 3. Wang Lu's 'Preface to the Painting Models Album'
- Part III: 4. Self-reliance as the true way to follow tradition
- 5. Wang Lu and the fourteenth century debates on the ideal relationship of expression and representation
- 6. Off the beaten track, seeking new ways to paint Mt. Hua
- Part IV: 7. The legacy of a man out of tune with his times
- Illustrations
- Chinese texts
- Appendix
- Notes.
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