Library Item: 251621623
The lyric journey : poetic painting in China and Japan
1996
Creating paintings with poetic resonances, sometimes with ties to specific lines of poetry, is a practice that began in China in the eleventh century, the Northern Sung period. James Cahill vividly surveys its first great flowering among artists working in the Southern Sung capital of Hangchou, probably the largest and certainly the richest city on earth in this era. He shows us the revival of poetic painting by late Ming artists working in the prosperous city of Suchou. And we learn how artists in Edo-period Japan, notably the eighteenth-century Nanga masters and the painter and haiku poet Yosa Buson, transformed the style into a uniquely Japanese vehicle of expression.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
ARTE Lyr
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10.5 x 8 x 1.06 inches
Gift of Stephanie Kelly