China's southern paradise : treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta / edited by Clarissa von Spee ; with contributions by Yiwen Liu ; essays by Richard von Glahn [and 7 others].
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Copyright Date:
℗♭2023
Description:
432 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 x 31 cm
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the Cleveland Museum of Art, September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024. Includes bibliographical references. Published for an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, held September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024.
Contents:
Director's foreword / William M. Griswold -- Introduction / Clarissa von Spee -- Prologue: toward a definition of "Jiangnan" / Clarissa von Spee -- The creation of the cultural Jiangnan in medieval poetry / Xiaofei TIan -- Rural landscape and agrarian livelihood in Jiangnan / Richard von Glahn -- Silk production in the Lower Yangzi Delta: formation, flourishing, and later developments / Feng Zhao -- The celadons of the southeast / Shelagh Vainker -- Jiangnan's beauty: Song and Yuan paintings prized in medieval and early modern Japan / Masaaki Itakura -- Jiangnan Buddhism in time and space / Jiang Wu -- Print culture and urban life in Suzhou / Cheng-hua Wang -- The Lion Grove Garden in the Qing Dynasty: history, ownership, and legacy / Yifan Li.
Summary:
A survey of art from the lower Yangzi River delta that explores the region's influential role in defining Chinese art throughout history. Focusing on the artistic production and cultural impact of the lower Yangzi River delta, an area known as Jiangnan, this volume features more than 200 objects from Neolithic times through the eighteenth century that range in media from jade, silk, prints, and paintings to porcelain, lacquer, and bamboo carvings. Essays by scholars cover topics such as Jiangnan in poetry, the region's economy, silk production, southern green stoneware, landscape painting, color print production and urban culture, Buddhism, and garden culture. The essays and object entries consider how the region--home to the cities Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Nanjing, as well as hilly landscapes stretched along rivers and lakes--became the epicenter of the Chinese art scene and largely defined the image of traditional China.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.