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Robert E. Harrist Jr.

Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China: Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin

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Robert E. Harrist Jr.

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23820

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CSJCCB	Congshu jicheng chubian
CSJCJB	Congshu jicheng jianbian
DPTB	Su Shi, Dongpo tiba
GXJBCS	Guoxue jiben congshu
HSCS	Huashi congshu
MSCS	Meishu congshu
SBBY	Sibu beiyao
SBCK	Sibu congkan chubian suoben
SKQS	Siku quanshu
THJWZ	Guo Ruoxu, Tuhua jianwen zhi
XHHP	Xuanhe huapu
YSCB	Yishu congbian
YZHXSWJ	Huang Tingjian, Yuzhang Huang Xiansheng wenji

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BOOKPainting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China: Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin

Robert E. Harrist Jr.

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23817

In the eleventh century, the focus of Chinese painting shifted dramatically. The subject matter of most earlier works of art was drawn from a broadly shared heritage of political, religious, and literary themes. Late in the century, however, a group of scholar-artists began to make paintings that reflected the private experiences of their own lives. Robert Harrist argues here that no work illuminates this development more vividly than Mountain Villa, a handscroll by the renowned artist Li Gonglin (ca. 1041–1106). Through a detailed reading of the painting and an analysis of its place in the visual culture of Li's time, the author offers a new explanation for the emergence of autobiographic content in Chinese art. Harrist proposes that the subject of Li's painting—his garden in the Longmian Mountains—was itself a form of self-representation, since a garden was then considered a reflection of its owner's character and values. He demonstrates also that Li's turn toward the imagery of private life was inspired by the conventions of Chinese lyric poetry, in which poets recorded and responded to the experiences of their lives. The book draws the reader into the artistic, scholarly, and political world of Li Gonglin and shows the profound influence of Buddhism on Chinese painting and poetry. It offers important insights not just into Chinese art, but also into Chinese literature and intellectual history.

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Author

Robert E. Harrist Jr.

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Print publication date April 1998 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780691016092

EISBN 9780300275308

Illustrations 80

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