Mi Youren and the inherited literati tradition: Dimensions of ink-play. (Volumes I-III).
详细信息
- 作者：Sturman ; Peter Charles.
- 学历：Doctor
- 年：1989
- 毕业院校：Yale University
- 专业：History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.;Fine Arts.
- CBH：9010683
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：35363011
- Pages：712
文摘
Mi Youren (1074-1151), son of the renowned calligrapher, painter and connoisseur, Mi Fu (1052-1107), has been known through history as a follower of his father's style of painting and calligraphy. This dissertation examines the art of Mi Youren in the context of the subject's historical background, and explores the specific problems that underlie a son's attempt to perpetuate what amounts to a self-conscious image of his family's tradition. Two key factors suggest the importance of this approach to Mi Youren's art: Mi Youren's survival of the fall of the Northern Song in 1126 and his continued existence in the very changed world of the early years of the Southern Song, a time when the achievements of his father's generation were painfully cut off from the present, and Mi Youren's awareness of himself as a literati painter, one who expresses both intent and inner virtue in his painting, or as he phrases it, "pictures of the heart.";The dissertation is arranged chronologically in four chapters, with each chapter primarily focused on a limited number of paintings and calligraphies. The first chapter concerns the calligraphy of Mi Fu and establishes the central themes of the Mi family tradition, with special attention paid to Mi Fu's "Coral." The subsequent chapters follow the evolution of Mi Youren's landscape painting in the Southern Song, from a period characterized by defiant "unbridledness" (1130-1134, "Cloudy Mountains" of 1130 and "Distant Peaks and Clearing Clouds" of 1134) to a period of continued hardship and consequent introspection (1135-1141), "Cloudy Mountains" #2 and "Rare and Wonderful Views of Xiao-Xiang") to final personal triumph, as Mi Youren receives imperial recognition and patronage (1142-1151, "Delight in Cloudy Mountains" and "White Clouds Along the Xiao-Xiang"). There are two appendices: a catalogue of select extant paintings attributed to Mi Youren with discussions of authenticity, and a list of Mi Youren authentications, inscriptions and letters, both extant and recorded.