Full Description
This book unfolds the artistic and cultural exchanges between China, Persia, and Italy, picturing "a Transcultural Renaissance on the Silk Road" with fascinating reading of rich images. The author has been intensely engaged in the transcultural art history for more than a decade, spanning east and west, crossing different fields of painting, architecture, philosophy, cartography and literature. With illuminating case studies, it also explores the intermedial play between painting and poetry, poetry and architecture and visual art and literature. The book proposes "another form of history of art ": history of art is a theoretical history that interprets works of art; yet it is also a "visible history of art" that exists in the form of exhibitions
Contents
Chapter 1. From Assisi Florence to Sultaniyeh.- Chapter 2. Graphics as Knowledge: A Transcultural Journey of Tour Maps of China.- Chapter 3. The Secret of the Worm and Silk.- Chapter 4. Visual Psalms: A New Exploration into the Relations between Poetry and Painting Concerning Chuan Qiaozhongchang's "Later Fu on Red Cliff".- Chapter 5. Style and Character: Transformation of Early Architectural Design and Theory by Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin.- Chapter 6. Architecture and Poetry: The Historical Opportunity for the Emergence of Lin Huiyin's Structural Rationalism.- Chapter 7. Comments of Shen Congwen on Four Paintings in Relation to Wang Dewei's "Visibility".- Chapter 8. Shen Congwen's Visual Turn: An Intermedial Study.- Chapter 9. Another form of the Silk Road.- Chapter 10. Exploring the Visible Transcultural History of Art.
