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Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's Late Work

Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's Late Work

Hardcover

Series: Asian Thought and Culture, Book 35

Art HistoryGeneral Asian HistoryTypography & Calligraphy

ISBN10: 082044460X
ISBN13: 9780820444604
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Mar 25 2004
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Modern Chinese painting embodies the constant renewal and reinvigorations of Chinese civilization amidst rebellions, reforms, and revolutions, even if the process may appear confusing and bewildering. It also demonstrates the persistence of tradition and limits of continuities and changes in modern Chinese cluture. Most significantly, it compels us to ask several important questions in the study of modern Chinese culture: How extensively can cultural tradition be re-interpreted before it is subverted? At what point is creative re-invention an act of betrayal of tradition? How has selective borrowing from Chinese tradition and foreign cultrue enabled modern Chinese artists to sustain themselves in the modern world? By focusing on the art of Huang Pin-hung (1865-1955), particularly his late work, this book attempts to provide some answers to these questions.

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