Full Description
New Songs on Ancient Tunes presents a sweeping selection of Chinese paintings and calligraphies from the turbulent century between 1850 and 1950. Drawn entirely from the private San Francisco collection of the Reverend Richard Fabian, the works span the years between the Opium War and the Cultural Revolution. The book includes a survey of the bold style of the late nineteenth-century Shanghai School, as contrasted with the conservative artists of the late Qing dynasty Orthodox School, and examines the impact on artists of the new urban (and international) culture of Shanghai, and interactions with Western and Japanese art. The book also explores the influence of Chinese archaeology on late Qing dynasty calligraphy and in turn, the influence of new styles of calligraphy on painting.
Focusing on superb works by the leading artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, New Songs on Ancient Tunes includes the painters Ren Bonian, Xugu, Zhao Zhiqian, Wu Changshi. Fu Baoshi, Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, and Zhang Daqian, and the calligraphers Deng Shiru, Yi Bingshou, He Shaoji, and Wu Dacheng. The book includes essays by Jonathan Spence, Chu-tsung Li, Stephen Little, and Qianshen Bai, and catalogue entries by Little, Rachel Farkas, Janet Carpenter, and Bruce McCLaren.
Contents
Artists in the Catalogue
Director's Preface / Stephen Little
Acknowledgments / Stephen Little
About the Contributors
Timeline
Map of China
Map of Jiangnan Region
A Fine Melody Will Sound Throughout the Ages Making Lofty Words Gleam as Beautiful as Gems / The Reverend Richard Fabian
Fractured China, 1850-1950 / Jonathan Spence
New Songs on Ancient Tunes, 19th-20th Century Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Richard Fabian Collection / Stephen Little
Open Country: Tradition and Innovation in Modern Chinese Painting / Chu-Tsing Li
Chinese Calligraphy in the Mid to Late Qing and Republican Periods (1850-1950) / Qianshen Bai
The Richard Fabian Collection
1. Othodoxy in the Late Qing Dynasty
2. Jinshi Movement Calligraphy
3. Jiangnan Regional Schools
4. Shanghai
5. Artists Active in Northern China
6. Southern Artists
7. Transnational Exchange
8. Mid-Century: Traditional Masters
9. Cultural Revolution: Before and After
10. Post-Revolution Monumentalism
11. Postscript
Selected Chinese and Japanese Names and Terms
Bibliography
Index
