Roots-searching’ and contemporary landscape photography in China

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ID13036244
AuthorsYunchang Yang (0000-0003-1258-7972, University College London, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume9
Issue3
Pages259-275
Publication date2019-06-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Art (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2150-0894 • E-ISSN: 2150-0908
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21500894.2019.1631211
OpenAlexW2951155578
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

This article aims to discuss a discursive turn of Chinese visual arts, using landscape representations from old and contemporary photographs of China, as well as painting and film materials. The discussion starts from showing the differences of defining the term landscape between Western and Chinese painters, arguing that they point to two types of realism underpinned by two kinds of cultures of seeing. It then moves on to the anthropological analysis of the landscape and how this analytical framework is useful in terms of understanding the ‘emotive reality’ in traditional Chinese landscape paintings. Lastly, the essay attempts to point out that this legacy has been inherited by contemporary Chinese visual arts in form of a ‘roots-searching’ sentimentality, either in explicit or implicit ways, participating in the construction of the new reality and identity recognised by and shapes contemporary Chinese artists

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · China · Contemporary art · Cultural landscape · Emotive · Identity (music · Landscape painting · Painting · Photography · Point (geometry · Politics · Realism · Representation (politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History

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