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    • Chinese Art History From 1978 to 2018

      中国当代艺术简史

      by Lü Peng

      Chinese Art History From 1978 to 2018 serves as an open window through which contemporary art lovers can see the history of Chinese contemporary art in the recent forty years. The book is edited by a Chinese well-known scholar Lü Peng, and compiled by four young scholars Li Guohua, Wang Yalei, Gao Songyin, and QiaoZhihua. The authors provide an accessible, focused, and much-needed narrative of the development of Chinese art across all media from 1978 to 2018, a time span characterized by radical social, political, and economic changes in China. The three chapters in the book follow achorological order and focus on three main issues in Chinese art: modernization in the 1990s, capitalization in the 2000s, and globalization in the 2010s.Each chapter includes a brief introduction of the historical events and a detailed review of the important artists. The book is a richly illustrated and easily navigated for both Chinese and international readers。

    • Delicate and Refined: The art of traditional Chinese book binding and decoration

      缥湘流彩

      by Shanghai Library

      Delicate and Refined: The art of traditional Chinese book binding and decorationis the catalogue affiliated to the special exhibition about the traditional book protection forms collected in Shanghai library in Autumn 2018. Unlimited by space and exhibition period, the amount of figures about the traditional books is much larger than the exhibition. So it can widely presents the art of the traditional Chinese book binding and decoration. From the title label to the postscript, from the illustration to the outside folder, each elements of the book contains the different protection methods across the mainland China, materials and the craftwork varies the collecting institutions between the imperial and folk. It is a rare opportunity for the readers to appreciate the book not only by the content but also its binding form, which you will hardly know outside the conservatory house of the academic institutions. Hence it is a book that may bring you academic knowledgeabout the traditional Chinese bookas well asan aesthetic joy. Collected in the Shanghai library, one of the Chinese authoritative institutions in preservation, protection and researchof the traditional Chinese books. Delicate and Refined: The art of traditional Chinese book binding and decoration will broaden your eyes by the beauty of the Chinese books and the wisdom of the ancient Chinese people.

    • Luminizing and Elegance: Qipao in Shanghai-Selection of Costumes Donated by Wang Shuizhong

      海上留晖——王水衷捐赠服饰精选

      by Shanghai History Museum / Shanghai Revolution Museum

      The Shanghai-style qipao, stating to flourish in the 1920s and 1930s, not only absorbed and combined the practical elements of Manchu and Han costumes, but also jointly reflected the aesthetic concepts of Chinese and Western costumes. In modern Shanghai, the once “Paris of the East”, urban women, regardless of socialites, celebrities, or schoolgirls, female workers, more or less wore their own qipao as a way of expressing their graceful taste and their pursuing of modern life and freedom. In this book, with the support of academic research, the Shanghai History Museum strives to tell the readers about the Shanghai costume culture behind Shanghai-style qipao, as well as the stories of the Shanghai Yungzong brand, the Shanghai craftsmanship and the Shanghai Depart Stores, from a multi-angled view through cultural relics, films and digital technology.

    • Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Paintings

      张择端清明上河图

      by Zhang Zeduan

      Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House has spent five years to publish one hundred kinds of “Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Calligraphy”. In order to allow readers to fully follow the same origin of Chinese painting and calligraphy, we are determined to publish “Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Painting” to show the brilliant achievements of Chinese painting (mainly scrolls from the third century). We introduce into the multidisciplinary achievements to explain the technique, explore historical and cultural information, track the provenance and inheritance of the over one hundred masterpieces of Classical Chinese Paintings.

    • Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Paintings

      王希孟千里江山图

      by Wang Ximeng

      Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House has spent five years to publish one hundred kinds of “Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Calligraphy”. In order to allow readers to fully follow the same origin of Chinese painting and calligraphy, we are determined to publish “Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Painting” to show the brilliant achievements of Chinese painting (mainly scrolls from the third century). We introduce into the multidisciplinary achievements to explain the technique, explore historical and cultural information, track the provenance and inheritance of the over one hundred masterpieces of Classical Chinese Paintings.

    • Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Paintings

      张萱捣练图

      by Zhang Xuan

      Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House has spent five years to publish one hundred kinds of “Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Calligraphy”. In order to allow readers to fully follow the same origin of Chinese painting and calligraphy, we are determined to publish “Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Painting” to show the brilliant achievements of Chinese painting (mainly scrolls from the third century). We introduce into the multidisciplinary achievements to explain the technique, explore historical and cultural information, track the provenance and inheritance of the over one hundred masterpieces of Classical Chinese Paintings.

    • Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Paintings

      黄筌写生珍禽图 黄居寀山鹧棘雀图

      by Huang Quan

      Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House has spent five years to publish one hundred kinds of “Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Calligraphy”. In order to allow readers to fully follow the same origin of Chinese painting and calligraphy, we are determined to publish “Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Painting” to show the brilliant achievements of Chinese painting (mainly scrolls from the third century). We introduce into the multidisciplinary achievements to explain the technique, explore historical and cultural information, track the provenance and inheritance of the over one hundred masterpieces of Classical Chinese Paintings.

    • New Illustrations for the Classic of Mountains and Rivers

      新镌全本插画

      by Xu Longbao

      The Classic of Mountains and Rivers is the treasure of the ancient culture of Chinese civilization, retaining a large number of primitive myths, opened Chinese narrative tradition. The famous artist Xu Longbao selected eighty images from this book in the form of wood engravings. On the basis of the image form of the traditional Chinese legend The Classic of Mountains and Rivers, it breaks through the engraving tradition of wood-cut lines, and the images portrayed with the fine cutting method are more realistic and vivid. The picture is rich in layers, and the perspective and shading of the composition make the images have a sense of volume, which seems to activate theancient life.

    • Nine Speeches on Chinese Art History

      中国艺术史九讲

      by Fong Wen, Tan Shengguang

      This book is one of the series of “Wen Fong’s Complete Works of Chinese Art History” series. It includes nine independent and inseparable articles which are Wen Fong’s series of speeches in recent years. Starting from exploring the special visual language and artistic style of Chinese art, the author is dedicated to exploring the unique value of Chinese art and constructing the outline of Chinese art history in the contemporary international context. The book combining history with theory, with lots of colorful illustrations, is a masterpiece of cross-cultural study of Chinese art history.

    • Photographic Compendium of the Oversea Kizil Grotto Murals

      海外克孜尔壁画复原影像集

      by Zhao Li

      The construction of the Kizil grottoes started in the third century and was completed between the eighth and ninth centuries. It represent the earliest group of Buddhist grottoes in China. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, archaeological expeditions to the historical Western Regions of China attracted many foreign expeditions. Foreign explorers came to Kizil one after another to visit and survey the grottoes. These expedition groups removed different numbers of murals and painted statues from their original locations. After twenty years of tireless efforts and with the support of both the Museum ofAsiatischeKunst and the Hermitage Museum, the Kucha Research Institute of Xinjiang has now acquired 465 high-resolution images of the Kizil Grotto murals from more than twenty museums in eight countries. Researchers at the Kucha Research Institutehave measured the murals and compared them with the traces left in the original grottoes, which have since been 3D scanned. Many of their original locations have been located. This book presents the images of the oversea murals to provide the reader with integrated visual information on the original appearance of the caves and their murals. We hope that this exhibition exemplifies the hybridity which so characterizes the cultural heritage of Xinjiang.

    • Poetry of the Tang Dynasty Painted by Fu Baoshi

      傅抱石画唐诗

      by Fu Baoshi

      The Book of Poetry of the Tang Dynasty is a small album painted by Mr. Fu Baoshi, who is a master of Chinese painting, in the summer of 1948. The poems of Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi are used as themes to express the spirit, mood and emotion of poetry with brushes. Fu Baoshi loved Tang poetry and often chose them as the themes of his paintings. The key to successful poetic painting is to accurately convey the original meaning of the poem, with unique brush and ink performance, which needs deep literacy and artistic technique.

    • The Ferryman of Ink World Dong Qichang’s Calligraphy and Painting Art

      丹青宝筏

      by Shanghai Museum

      The distinguished Chinese painter, Dong Qichang (1555-1636), opens a refreshing chapter of literati painting in late Ming dynasty with his bold and insightful theory of the Southern and Northern schools of landscape painting which synthesized traditions and set the course of artistic development for the following generations. Dong’s theory profoundly impacted and nurtured his followers such as the early Qing Four Monks, the Four Wangs, Wu Li and Yun Shouping, Jinling School, Xin’an School, and cultivate literati painting to reach its peak, and beyond to late Qing and Modern China. Since Yuan dynasty, Zhao Mengfu and Dong Qichang are the only two most influential painters who could bridge the past traditions to the future, and thus are respected as “two Literati Masters in the painting history”.Holding an important collection of Dong Qichang’s works of art, Shanghai museum is proud to present the debut exhibition in Mainland China after decade-long research effort, The Ferryman of Ink World: Dong Qichang’s Calligraphy and Painting Art to commemorate this great Ming artist and a native of Shanghai as well. The exhibition title adopted the terminology of Chinese Buddhism in Wu Weiye’s work in this show, which means every achievement in the world is driven by an enlightenment, the same way as Dong Qichang, who acted like a ferryman in the ink world to assist and inspire a later group of artists such as Zhu Da, Wang Yuanqi to accomplish their goals in the art journey. Dong Qichang’s contribution is tremendous and unrivaled in his time and throughout the following centuries, as commented by his close friend Chen Jiru, “A drop of Lion’s milk, Breeding a glory family”. The book is a catalogue of the exhibition. It consists of three sections, “Dong Qichang and His Time”,“Dong Qichang’s Achievement and Transcendence” and “Dong Qichang’s Influence and Works Copying after Him”, which provides a comprehensive understanding of the arts of Dong Qichang.

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