| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 414 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Some problems of expectation or speculations on why originality can't be a "traditional Chinese" value (when it is) ; Some problems of interpretation or discerning the flavors of a fine kettle of fish -- Ideas and words. How ideas spread across China and among the classes ; The importance of a word : a discussion of critical terms -- What the theorists and critics had to say. What the texts say : originality in pre-seventeenth-century art theory and criticism ; What the texts say : originality in seventeenth-century painting theory and criticism -- What the texts say : originality in seventeenth-century calligraphy theory and criticism -- Images. The other Dong Qichang ; What originality looks like : Wu Bin's On the way to Shanyin -- The legacy of a concept. The End of originality as the seventeenth century knew it -- Epilogue. A new canon : qi becomes the new zheng -- Appendix. Instances of the ise of qi, yi, and guai in sobriquet dictionaries |
| Summary |
This book investigates the issue of conceptual originality in seventeenth-century art criticism, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. The term which was called upon to indicate conceptual originality more than any other was qi, literally, "different"; but secondarily, "odd," like a number and, by extension, "the novel" and "extraordinary." The author speculates on why many have dismissed originality as a "traditional Chinese" value, and the ramifications this has had on understanding. She further demonstrates that a study of key terms can reveal social and cultural values, and provides a linear history of the increase in use of qi as "originality" through the seventeenth centuries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-402) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Art, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912.
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Art criticism -- China -- History -- 17th century
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ART -- Asian.
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Art, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties
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Art criticism
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789629969141 |
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9629969149 |
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