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The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll. By Shane McCausland. Publisher: Reaktion Books. 2023
An examination of the picture-scroll, China’s pre-eminent aesthetic format over the last two millennia.
The Chinese picture-scroll, a long painting or calligraphic work held within a horizontal scrolling mount, has been China’s pre-eminent aesthetic format for the last two millennia. This first extended history of the picture-scroll explores its extraordinary longevity, and its adaptability to social, political and technological change. The book describes what the picture-scroll demands of a viewer, how China’s artists grappled with its cultural power, and how collectors and connoisseurs have left their marks on scrolls for later generations to judge. The return to mass appeal of scrolling – a media technology that seemed long outdated yet persists in our digital age – provides urgent and fascinating context to this book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1 On Origins and Uses over the First Millennium
Chapter 2 Inscribing the Artist and the Collector: The Picture-Scroll in the Song–Liao–Jin Period
Chapter 3 Handscrolls in Mongol Palaces
Chapter 4 Musing on Shadows: Reading the Ming Picture-Scroll
Chapter 5 Qing: Reading the ‘Baroque’ Handscroll
Chapter 6 Modernist Uses of the Chinese Picture-Scroll
Chapter 7 The Medium of Silent Poetry in the Late Modern World
References
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Index
