{"product_id":"handheld-landscapes-the-four-seasons-in-chinese-paintings-from-the-birmingham-museum-of-art-9781934774267","title":"Handheld Landscapes: The Four Seasons in Chinese Paintings from the Birmingham Museum of Art","description":"Through the lens of the four\u003cbr\u003eseasons--spring, summer, autumn, and winter--this publication explores intimate\u003cbr\u003evisual storytelling embedded within small-scale Chinese landscape paintings.\u003cbr\u003eWhether formatted in a popular fan shape, as an album leaf, a handscroll, \u003cbr\u003ehanging scroll, or a glossy ceramic, the paintings featured in this publication\u003cbr\u003ewere intended to be studied up close and to be handled. Many of the paintings\u003cbr\u003ecombine the elevated art form of calligraphy with inscriptions that describe\u003cbr\u003efamous Chinese painting styles, reference poetry, provide dedications to\u003cbr\u003efriends and family, and offer dates for when the works were made.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKatherine\u003cbr\u003eAnne Paul provides an overview of visual keys that unlock the seasonality in\u003cbr\u003ethe paintings. Intended to enhance and intensify the viewing experience, \u003cbr\u003ecalligraphy, an elevated artform unto itself, \u003cbr\u003ecompliments the paintings' imagery. The intended audience of these works\u003cbr\u003ecould fully read the inscriptions, thereby understanding their personal, \u003cbr\u003epoetic, and cultural significance. Ruoxin Wang's English translations of the\u003cbr\u003einscriptions provide this understanding for all readers. Richard A. Pegg delves\u003cbr\u003einto some of the deeper coded visual and cultural language of the potentially\u003cbr\u003e\"endless combinations of painting, poetry, and calligraphy.\" Kayi Ho discusses\u003cbr\u003ehow late Qing cultural elites of Guangdong \"adapted the artistic tastes and\u003cbr\u003ecultural practices popular in the Jiangnan area\" to bring forward a\u003cbr\u003efluorescence of painting for this region while harnessing earlier precedents.\u003cbr\u003eDoris Sung poses the question, \"Why are there so few women in Chinese art\u003cbr\u003ehistory?\" and answers it in part by elevating named women painters in the late\u003cbr\u003eQing period. An interview with Curator Emeritus Donald A. Wood provides\u003cbr\u003einsights into institutional transparency for acquisitions and provenance for\u003cbr\u003ehow two extraordinary but underknown collections of Guangdong regional painting\u003cbr\u003eof the late Qing period and early Republic period came to Birmingham, Alabama.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistributed on behalf of the Birmingham Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10885521\"\u003eKatherine Anne Paul\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Birmingham Museum of Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.94h x 8.98w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934774267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 193477426X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-ART\"\u003eArt\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-ART019010\"\u003eAsian | Chinese\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-ART\"\u003eArt\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-ART006000\"\u003eCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Birmingham Museum of Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44485132615917,"sku":"9781934774267","price":52.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_ee796bcf-8fa6-40eb-b89d-36eb00ec5040.jpg?v=1700798473","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/handheld-landscapes-the-four-seasons-in-chinese-paintings-from-the-birmingham-museum-of-art-9781934774267","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}