The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

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BOOKThe Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00127

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18242

Mu Xin (b. 1927) is one of the leading expatriate artist-intellectuals of our time and is known for his complex writings and paintings. Clearly a formidable figure in the cultural and intellectual history of Chinese modernism, Mu Xin is admired for his unique synthesis of Chinese and Western aesthetic sensibilities. This catalogue focuses on a group of thirty-three landscape paintings that Mu Xin painted in 1978–79, in the immediate aftermath of the Great Cultural Revolution. Many of these works have never been exhibited or published in the West. In addition, the book features Mu Xin’s Prison Notes, some sixty-six calligraphic sheets that were written when the artist was in solitary confinement in China in 1972.

Author

Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

Print publication date October 2001 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300090758

EISBN 9780300247930

Illustrations 140

Print Status out of print

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List of illustrations

Bamboo and Plum: Paired Purities
Self-Portrait
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda), detail
A Deluge
Untitled
Europe After the Rain
The Wangchuan Villa
Banquet by Lantern Light
Detail of Temple in Autumn Hills
The Rongxi Studio
The Coming of Autumn
Landscape
Pavilion of Rising Clouds
Dwelling in the Qingbian
A Lofty Pavilion
Mount Lu
Scholar and Cranes
Landscape
Spring Breeze
Wind and Dust
Intoxicated Village
Twilight
Dancers
The Li River in the Rain
Scholars Watching a Waterfall
Xu You Washing His Ear
Tolstoy
War and Flower
Ancients and Huan and Yin
Night Approaching
Pure Bamboo by a Cool Stream
Pure Bamboo by a Cool Stream, detail
Wandering in a Dream to West Lake
Spring Brilliance at Kuaiji
At Peace in Stone Cottage
Clear Ripples of a Waterfall
Dawn Mood at Bohai
Dawn Mood at Bohai, detail
Autumn Colors at Jinling
Reminiscences of Wangchuan
Dark Ridge Blocking the Sky
In Lonely Leisure, Seeking Beautiful Scenery
Dawn's Light at Fuyang
Moonlight at Pudong
Pure Mind amid Colored Clouds
Cicadas' Drone in Summer Trees
Stone Cave in Desiccated Cliff
Mountains Enclosing the Chu River
Strong Wind in Autumn Mountains
Reciting a Tang Poem on the Road to Shu
Half Thousand Li of the Ruo River
Geese Arriving over a Pavilion
Pure Stone Mountain-Villa
Pure Stone Mountain-Villa, detail
Sunset in the Yellow Mountains
Ancient Fountainhead of the Yellow River
Eroding Inscription of the Han
Tea Ranges of the Wuyi Mountains
Slumbering Stones at a Quiet Pond
Slumbering Stones at a Quiet Pond, detail
Twin Pagodas in Plum Rain
Night Banquet at Gushan
Spring Shade at the Su Embankment
Noon Thunder in the Shade of a Banyan Tree
Ancient Road at Shanyin
Ancient Road at Shanyin, detail
Lofty Residence of the Wei and Jin
Wisps of Auspicious Clouds
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Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

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Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00127.001

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Foreword and Acknowledgments

Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

~Mu Xin is an extraordinary writer-artist of the twentieth century. Born in China in 1927, he has witnessed the full turmoil of twentieth-century Chinese history, from the war with Japan to the founding of the People’s Republic, from the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution to the death of Mao Zedong. In 1982 he moved to New York and...

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Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00127.002

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Preface

Robert Rosenkranz

The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

~Jacob Burckhardt, writing in 1860, describes what subsequent generations have called the Renaissance man: “When this impulse to the highest individual development was combined with a powerful and varied nature, which had mastered all the elements of the culture of the age, then arose the ‘all-sided man’—I’uomo universale...

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Robert Rosenkranz

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00127.003

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Palimpsest: Nearby Mu Xin

Alexandra Munroe

The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

The single imperative of modern Asian artists is to define a space that absorbs the cultures of traditional Asia, the classical West, and of modernity. Few artists are able to arrive at an authentic synthesis. Fewer still are able to create a genuinely original art that goes beyond a mere integration of artistic forms and styles to...

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Alexandra Munroe

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

Related print edition pages: pp.9-16

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00127.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18246

Chapter subject tags:Art, Chinese--20th centuryPrisoners' writings, ChineseArtists--China--BiographyLandscape painting, Chinese--20th centuryArt, Chinese--Western influences

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Landscape Painting at the End of Time

Richard M. Barnhart

The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

The series of landscape paintings done by Mu Xin between 1977 and 1979 in the aftermath of one of the worst manmade disasters of the twentieth century, the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), comes at the end of a millennium during which landscape painting had flourished in China as it had nowhere else in the world. Since the tenth century, Chinese painters had been engaged in creating a continuous...

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Richard M. Barnhart

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

Related print edition pages: pp.18-26

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00127.005

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Chapter subject tags:Landscape drawing, ChineseDrawing, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912Art, Chinese--Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368Art, Chinese--20th centuryLandscape painting, Chinese--20th century

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Mu Xin and Twentieth-Century Chinese Painting

Jonathan Hay

The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

It is only by default that the paintings of Mu Xin in the Tower within a Tower series can be categorized collectively as ink paintings. Although ink plays a large role in all of them, in some of the works it is combined with gouache, and perhaps other materials as well. In others the surface is so heavily and strangely worked that ink painting as a tradition — in other words, as a...

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Jonathan Hay

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

Related print edition pages: pp.28-37

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00127.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18248

Chapter subject tags:Landscape painting, Chinese--20th centuryArt, Chinese--20th centuryInk painting, ChinesePainting, Chinese

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Reading Mu Xin: An Exile without a Past

Wu Hung

The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

Among contemporary Chinese artists Mu Xin is special on two accounts. First, he is arguably the most learned in both Chinese and Western literature and philosophy, and he fuses this knowledge with his writing and painting with equal mastery. In this regard he can be compared with Gao Xingjian, the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, who is also a dedicated painter. But in my view...

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Wu Hung

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

Related print edition pages: pp.40-44

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00127.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18249

Chapter subject tags:Chinese literature--20th centuryPolitical prisoners' writings, ChineseChina--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976Exiles' writings, Chinese

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Landscape Paintings

Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

Landscape Paintings

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Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00127.008

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Prison Notes

Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

Prison Notes

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Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00127.009

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Passages from the Prison Notes

Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

It’s ironic that in this dungeon I should feel like St. Anthony, being forced into the life of an ascetic. As long as I can resist the temptation of illusions from within...

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Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00127.010

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18253

Chapter subject tags:Prisoners' writings, ChinesePolitical prisoners' writings, ChineseChinese literature--20th century

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A Dialogue with Mu Xin

Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes

~The following dialogue between Mu Xin (M) and Toming Jun Liu (T) took place in Mu Xin’s study at Forest Hills, New York, on October 18, 2000. The Dialogue was conducted in Chinese; the English version is Professor Liu’s translation.

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Alexandra Munroe (Editor)

PublisherYale University Art Gallery

Related print edition pages: pp.139-143

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00127.011

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18254

Chapter subject tags:Prisoners' writings, ChinesePolitical prisoners' writings, ChineseChinese literature--20th centuryArt, Chinese--20th centuryExiles' writings, Chinese

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