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Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting chronicles the life of a modern art form. In the late 1910s Chinese painters began working outdoors. They also adopted linear perspective and Cartesian optics. Yi Gu reflects on the complex interaction of local and Western aesthetics within the new form and on the nature of visual modernity in China.

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Yi Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of Chinese visual modernity…After reading Yi Gu’s book…we have a clearer and fresher view of open-air paintings in China and how they have reflected social, political, and cultural changes from the very beginning of open-air painting since 1910. -- Xiaoxiao Li * Chinese Historical Review *
[A] penetrating study of 20th-century Chinese landscape painting. * Choice *

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
      Publication Date: 16/06/2020
      ISBN13: 9780674244443, 978-0674244443
      ISBN10: 0674244443
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      Paintings and painting The arts: general topics Asian history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting chronicles the life of a modern art form. In the late 1910s Chinese painters began working outdoors. They also adopted linear perspective and Cartesian optics. Yi Gu reflects on the complex interaction of local and Western aesthetics within the new form and on the nature of visual modernity in China.

      Trade Review
      Yi Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of Chinese visual modernity…After reading Yi Gu’s book…we have a clearer and fresher view of open-air paintings in China and how they have reflected social, political, and cultural changes from the very beginning of open-air painting since 1910. -- Xiaoxiao Li * Chinese Historical Review *
      [A] penetrating study of 20th-century Chinese landscape painting. * Choice *

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