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Western Approaches to Chinese Landscape Painting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Kiraz Perinçek Karavit
Kiraz Perinçek Karavit*
Affiliation:
Boğaziçi University, Turkey
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Kiraz Perinçek Karavit, Asian Studies Center, Boğaziçi University, South Campus, Cultural Heritage Museum, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey. Email: kiraz.perincek@gmail.com
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Abstract

This paper considers Western approaches at different time periods to Chinese landscape painting, with a focus on the eleventh century Chinese painter Guo Xi's Essay on landscape painting. First, brief information will be given about the artist and his work. A brief scrutiny of a review published in 1936 will show how the Essay became influential in the West. Later publications, which appeared in 1969, 2007, and 2009 respectively, will show some changes in Western approaches to Chinese landscape painting, revealing the main rhetoric of their times along with changing debates and approaches within Western art history.

Keywords

Chinese landscape paintingGuo XiEssay on landscape paintingShio Sakanishiaesthetic appreciation of natureglobal art history
Type
Articles
Information
Diogenes , Volume 64 , Issue 3-4: Contesting Method and Theory between Europe and Asia: Asian Studies in Turkey , November 2017 , pp. 111 - 120
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Copyright © ICPHS 2022

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