Human Bodies in Chinese and European Painting
An Economic Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7739482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nachoem M Wijnberg (0000-0001-8070-8719, Erasmus University Rotterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-103 |
| Publication date | 1999-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/092137409901100105 |
| OpenAlex | W2067868040 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
The relative status of human bodies as subjects for paintings is very different in European painting since the Renaissance and in Chinese painting from the Yuan dynasty onwards. In Europe the body, and especially the nude body, was a necessary ingredient of the most highly valued type of painting, history painting. Landscape painting had a much lower status and value. In China, the hierarchy of subjects is almost completely the reverse. It is proposed that this state of affairs can be explained by the way in which the choice of subjectmatter by the most important artists, at the moment of the most important change in the selection system dominating art, was linked to the social role and status of the artist in the new selection system
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · China · Hierarchy · Landscape painting · Painting · Political science · The Renaissance · Art History and Market Analysis · Computer Science · Law
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Chinese History in Economic Perspective
The Painter's Practice
Chinese Religions
Art and Appropriability in Renaissance Italy and The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century
Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300-1600
The Court Artist
Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris
The Clash of Gods
On Chinese Body Thinking
The Accademia Del Disegno and the Art Industry
Giuseppe Castiglione
The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336
| Highly cited | No |
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