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

Kathlyn Maurean Liscomb

(RES monographs on anthropology and aesthetics)

Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Bibliography: p. 215-220

Includes index

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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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