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| Title: Chinese Masters of the 20th Century V1 |
| Sub-title: Art of Li Keran |
| By (author): Lu Zhangshen |
| ISBN10-13: 1921816074 : 9781921816079 |
| Li Keran (1907-1989) is a renowned contemporary Chinese painter. He was born on March 26, 1907 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, as Li Yongshun. Li Keran, who was forty-two at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, embraced the challenges and opportunities with which he was confronted. Born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, to illiterate parents, he excelled at art from an early age. In 1925, he graduated from the Shanghai Art College and went on to post-graduate study in Western art at the National Art Academy in Hangzhou. His teachers included the French modernist Andre Claudot (1892-1982) with whom he studied drawing and oil painting. Li painted propaganda art during the Sino-Japanese War and in 1946 he was invited by Xu Beihong (1895-1953) to teach brush and ink painting at the Beiping National Art College (Beiping guoli yizhuan). There he came into contact with Qi Baishi (1864-1957) and Huang Binhong (1865-1955), two of China's most influential twentieth-century brush and ink painters. Despite his training in oil painting, in the 1940s Li Keran turned to the more patriotic and less expensive medium of brush and ink and excelled in figure painting, in the literati style. In 1950, Li was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Painting at the newly established Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and he published an influential essay titled 'On the Reform of Chinese Painting' in the inaugural issue ofArt (Meishu), the magazine of the Chinese Artists' Association. Reflecting the revolutionary spirit of the times Li Keran invoked the words of the leader of the Communist Party Mao Zedong and called on artists to immerse themselves in the lives of ordinary people (shenru shenghuo). He also argued for the retention of useful elements of China's rich cultural and artistic heritage as well as the need to draw from external sources, notably scientific principles embodied in Western art. In 1954, Li Keran put his own theory into practice and travelled south of the Yangtze on a painting trip with fellow artists Zhang Ding (b.1917) and Luo Ming (b.1912). During that trip Li spent time in Hangzhou with Huang Binhong, who was then China's most senior landscape painter. The three-month journey marks a major turning point in Li Keran's art. Thereafter, he concentrated on landscape painting that was closely observed, drawing on his experience of Western realist art and Chinese brush and ink painting. Beginning in 1954, he also began to experiment with the layered ink technique (jimo fa) that became a hallmark of his mature style. In the 1970s, Li Keran was encouraged to return from his disgrace during the Cultural Revolution as a 'black artist' to make public art. Among the tasks assigned to him were the creation of monumental landscape paintings for the Nationalities Hotel (Minzu fandian) in Beijing and the Department of Foreign Affairs, paintings for presentation as official gifts to visiting heads of state and a massive work representing the revolutionary site of Jingang Mountain in Jiangxi province for the Chairman Mao Mausoleum in Tiananmen Square. Li was an influential educator who taught at the Central Academy of Fine Arts since 1946. In 1979, he lead a post-graduate class in landscape painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the first such course in China, and in 1981 was appointed inaugural Director of the Chinese Painting Research Academy (Zhongguo hua yanjiu yuan), instilling in a generation of practitioners his new landscape painting method of using brush and ink to record the actual landscape. Today, Li Keran is renowned for his black landscape paintings, for which he was severely criticised during the Cultural Revolution, but which he continued to paint in the years until his death in 1989. This book a collections of his art has work from 1943 to 1970. It has chapters describing his work by leading Chinese art historians: Zou Peizhu, Lu Zhangshen, Shao Dazhen, Li Song, Lang Shaojun, Wang Luxiang, and concludes with a chronology of his life and work.275 pages The ancient art of Chines painting has many good traditions, such as expressive use of lines, the adept use of ink, and majestic composition. Vast expanses of landscapes can be represented in a singe painting scroll., which is rare in the paintings of other countries. Chinese painting is unique in reflecting the greatness and the extraordinariness of the chinese nation. The realm reflected in Chinese paintings is very vast. Chinese painting represents no only what the artist sees, but also what he knows and thinks. It embodies great imaginative power. Some say my paintings are based on the Impressionist School of Chinese painting. I do not agree and believe it is on mixture of my Western study but also the splendid Chijese cultural system and unique forms of expresion. |
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| Published: ATF Asia - March 2013 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Oriental art : History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - : Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 |
| List Price: 70.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Chinese Masters of the 20th Century V2 |
| Sub-title: Art of Pan Tianshou |
| By (author): Lu Zhangshen |
| ISBN10-13: 1921816058 : 9781921816055 |
| Pan Tianshou 1897-1971, inheriting the traditional Chinese painting, was a socialist painter. It had been his goal and spiritual fountain to revitalise national spirit by carrying forward the national art. Compared to his predecessors, he showed more presence in the forefront of the cultural clashes and social reform, voicing his great support for Chinese painting. Pan Tianshou was a notable painter and art educator of modern China. Pan was born in Guanzhuang, Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province, and graduated from Zhejiang First Normal School (today the Hangzhou High School ). He followed Wu Changshuo to study Chinese traditional painting. He built the foundation of Chinese traditional painting education. In July 1926, his "History of Chinese Painting" was published by Commercial Press. In Winter, together with Yu Jifan and Pan Booying, he co-founded Shanghai Xinhua School of Fine Arts. Also known by the names of Dayi. Shouzhe, Yizhe, and Leipotoufeng Shouze. His artisti lineage can be traced back to the Zhe school of the ing Dynasty which succeeded the famous Song traditions. Pan worked in vigorous and strong brush strokes. He was good at calligraphy and seal engraving. He believed that Chinese painting needed to distinguish itself from western painting. The books has works by the artist from 1928 to 1969. It has chapters outlining and critiquing his work by leading Chines art historians, Pan Gongkai, Lamg Shaojun, Wan Qingli, Liu Jiang and Pan Yaochang and concludes with a chronology of his life and work. 230 pages. |
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| Published: ATF Asia - March 2013 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Oriental art : History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - : Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 |
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| Title: Chinese Masters of the 20th Century V3 |
| Sub-title: Art of Huang Zhou |
| By (author): Lu Zhangshen |
| ISBN10-13: 1921816082 : 9781921816086 |
| Huang Zhou (1925-1997), modern Chinese artist, was originally named Liang Gantang. He was also known by the names of Liang Yezi, Miao Di, Liang Peng, and Liang Quan. Born in Lixian County, Hebei Province, he was apprenticed in his adolescence to artist Han Leran and Zhao Wangyun. Early in his career, he worked as an editor in the Soldiers' Books Publishing House of the Northeast Military Region. In 1949, he joined the People's Liberation Army and served as a staff artist of the Creative Unit in the Political Department at the Headquarters of PLA's Northeast Military Region. In 1955, he was transferred as a staff artist to the General Political Department of the PLA in Beijing. In 1959, he became a staff painter at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution. In 1981, he was appointed Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting. Huang was also a member of the CPPCC National Committee, a consultant to the Arts and Crafts Corporation under the former Ministry of Light Industry, and executive member of the council of the Chinese Artists Association. Masterpieces of Huang, like A Blizzard in the Wilderness, Celebrating the Harvest, On Patrol, Singing While Travelling, Pine and Eagle, One Hundred Donkeys, Lamb-grabbing Contest, and Chasing and Playing on the Steppe, represent innovative achievements in contemporary Chinese painting. His writings include Huang Zhou's Views on Art and Huang Zhou's Theories on Calligraphy and Painting. Not only was Huang an artist of the people, he was also a social activist who made outstanding contributions to the preservation and promotion of national art and to the advancement of public art education. He co-founded the Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Painting with famous painters Li Keran, Cai Ruohong, and Hua Junwu and presided over the establishment of the Yan Huang Art Museum. His artistic practice and theory have exerted a significant influence on the development of contemporary art. This books is a collection of paintings and drawings from 1946 to 1980 with various chapters outlining and critiquing his work by leading Chines art historians: Xue Yongnian, Li Song, Feng Yunan, and Gong Dafei and concludes with a chronology of his life and work.218 pages. |
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| Published: ATF Asia - March 2013 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: History of art / art & design styles : Oriental art |
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| Title: Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics Volume 1 |
| Sub-title: Primitive Society 1.7million-4000BC The Xia and Shang Dynasties 21st-11th century BC |
| Compiled by: Committee of Chinese Society of Cultural Relics Ex Translated by: Wang Guozhen |
| ISBN10-13: 1925371263 : 9781925371260 |
| This book provides images in colour abnd describes Chinese relics from the primitive period, the Xia and Shang dynasties , 21st to 11th century BC. About 2 million years ago the Chinese people moved from the woods to the plains and developed a primitive society where material production was the precondition for survival, and where making of tools was paramount. The making of stone tools was the start in this Paleolithic Age - 2 million to 10,000 years ago. The cultural relics are distributed in vast areas of the north, south and southwest of China. Yuanmout Man, Lanthian Man, Peking Man, Hexian Man, Tangshan Man and Yunxian Man all belonging to this period. About 10,000 years ago there was a revolution to a more agricultural, livestoock and handicraft culture with a change from stone implements to more polished ones which led to te Neolithic Age in areas such as the Yellow River Basin, Ynagtze River basin, northeast and southwest China. In particular jade and pottery came to the fore. There were ten separate cultures in this period: Hongshan Culture and Lianggzhu Culture were prominet in the north and the south and featured weapons, ornaments, cerominal objects and buria articles reflecting all aspects of social life at the time. This volume has examples and descriptions of many of these. This book, the first ina ten volume collection, brimngs to the English speaking world from China which has been compiled by an Expert Committee of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics. There are 365 descriptions. |
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| Published: ATF Asia - December 2019 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Oriental art : History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 5 : Ancient history: to c 500 CE : Archaeology : China |
| List Price: 35.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics Volume 1 |
| Sub-title: Primitive Society 1.7million-4000BC The Xia and Shang Dynasties 21st-11th century BC |
| Compiled by: Committee of Chinese Society of Cultural Relics Ex Translated by: Wang Guozhen |
| ISBN10-13: 1925371271 : 9781925371277 |
| This book provides images in colour abnd describes Chinese relics from the primitive period, the Xia and Shang dynasties , 21st to 11th century BC. About 2 million years ago the Chinese people moved from the woods to the plains and developed a primitive society where material production was the precondition for survival, and where making of tools was paramount. The making of stone tools was the start in this Paleolithic Age - 2 million to 10,000 years ago. The cultural relics are distributed in vast areas of the north, south and southwest of China. Yuanmout Man, Lanthian Man, Peking Man, Hexian Man, Tangshan Man and Yunxian Man all belonging to this period. About 10,000 years ago there was a revolution to a more agricultural, livestoock and handicraft culture with a change from stone implements to more polished ones which led to te Neolithic Age in areas such as the Yellow River Basin, Ynagtze River basin, northeast and southwest China. In particular jade and pottery came to the fore. There were ten separate cultures in this period: Hongshan Culture and Lianggzhu Culture were prominet in the north and the south and featured weapons, ornaments, cerominal objects and buria articles reflecting all aspects of social life at the time. This volume has examples and descriptions of many of these. This book, the first ina ten volume collection, brimngs to the English speaking world from China which has been compiled by an Expert Committee of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics. There are 365 descriptions. |
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| Published: ATF Asia - December 2019 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Oriental art : History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 5 : Ancient history: to c 500 CE : Archaeology : China |
| List Price: 46.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics Volume 10 |
| Sub-title: The Qing Dynasty II 1644-1911 |
| Compiled by: Committee of Chinese Society of Cultural Relics Ex Translated by: Wang Guozhen |
| ISBN10-13: 192537162X : 9781925371628 |
| The second volume dealing with ancient Chines cultural relics in the Qing Dynasty, 1644 to 1911. There are 375 relics. A continuation of Volume 9, dealing with the Qing Dynasty and describes paintings, calligraphy, embroidery and brocade, gold and silver ware and metal enamel ware and clocks. Paintings in this period can be divided into the early, middle and late stages. Early stage: Four Wangs painting school: Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Hui and Wang Yuanqi. Midle stage: representative artists include: Jiao Bingzhenb, Leng Mei, Tang Dai during Kangxi's reign,and Ding Guanpeng, Jin Tingbiao, Xu Yang, Zhang Zongcang, Jian Tingxi and Zou Yigui in Qianlong's reign. Late stage paintings of literati gradually declined. When the newly developed business cities such as Shanghai and Guangzhou, opened as trading ports, changes were made in themes and styles. New schools formed: 'Secoast School' in Shanghai and 'Ling,an School' in Guangzhou. The former group artists included: Xu Gu, Zhao Zhiqian, Wu Changshuo, while the other school included: Su Liupeng, Su Ren Sahn, Ju Chao and Ju Lian. This book, the tenth in a ten-volume collection, brings to the English-speaking world a series of books from China which has been complied by an Expert Committee of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics. There are 375 descriptions. |
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| Published: ATF Asia - February 2020 |
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| Subjects: Oriental art : History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 5 : Ancient history: to c 500 CE : Archaeology : Cultural studies : China |
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| Title: Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics Volume 10 |
| Sub-title: The Qing Dynasty II 1644-1911 |
| Compiled by: Committee of Chinese Society of Cultural Relics Ex Translated by: Wang Guozhen |
| ISBN10-13: 1925371638 : 9781925371635 |
| The second volume dealing with ancient Chines cultural relics in the Qing Dynasty, 1644 to 1911. There are 375 relics. A continuation of Volume 9, dealing with the Qing Dynasty and describes paintings, calligraphy, embroidery and brocade, gold and silver ware and metal enamel ware and clocks. Paintings in this period can be divided into the early, middle and late stages. Early stage: Four Wangs painting school: Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Hui and Wang Yuanqi. Midle stage: representative artists include: Jiao Bingzhenb, Leng Mei, Tang Dai during Kangxi's reign,and Ding Guanpeng, Jin Tingbiao, Xu Yang, Zhang Zongcang, Jian Tingxi and Zou Yigui in Qianlong's reign. Late stage paintings of literati gradually declined. When the newly developed business cities such as Shanghai and Guangzhou, opened as trading ports, changes were made in themes and styles. New schools formed: 'Secoast School' in Shanghai and 'Ling,an School' in Guangzhou. The former group artists included: Xu Gu, Zhao Zhiqian, Wu Changshuo, while the other school included: Su Liupeng, Su Ren Sahn, Ju Chao and Ju Lian. This book, the tenth in a ten-volume collection, brings to the English-speaking world a series of books from China which has been complied by an Expert Committee of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics. There are 375 descriptions. |
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| Published: ATF Asia - February 2020 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Oriental art : History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 5 : Ancient history: to c 500 CE : Archaeology : Cultural studies : China |
| List Price: 46.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics Volume 2 |
| Sub-title: The Western Zhou Dynasty 11th Century-771BC The Spring and Autumn Period 770-476BC The Warring States Period 475-221BC |
| Compiled by: Committee of Chinese Society of Cultural Relics Ex Translated by: Wang Guozhen |
| ISBN10-13: 1925371301 : 9781925371307 |
| In about the 11th cnetury BC, the Shangg Dynasty declined in national strength, and was destroyed by King Wu of Zhou and a capital was established in Haojing- west of what is now Xi'an, in Shanxi Province. This period is known as the Western Zhou Dynasty. Handicrafts were monopolised by the royal family and were characterised by more extensive distribution than the Shang Dynasty with more workshops and finer division of labour. Jade was only one of the many handicrafts and as something of value was very popular among royals and vassals. The pieces of importance were artefacts are: the Y3 Tomb of the Gongyu State in Baoji of Shaanxi, Guo State Tombs in Sanmenxia, Luoyang, Henan Province and the Jing State toomb of Gong Yu State in Houma of Shanxi. From this period there are also bronze wares and ceramics. In this period bronze wares chnaged in type, shape and inscription, emblazonary and casting. Cermaics developed significantly and hand stamped hand made pottery flourished. This book, the second in a ten volume collecion, brings to the English speaking world a books from China which has been complied by an Expert Committee of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics. There are 383 desriptions. |
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| Published: ATF Asia - February 2020 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Oriental art : History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 5 : Ancient history: to c 500 CE : Archaeology : China |
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| Title: Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics Volume 2 |
| Sub-title: The Western Zhou Dynasty 11th Century-771BC The Spring and Autumn Period 770-476BC The Warring States Period 475-221BC |
| Compiled by: Committee of Chinese Society of Cultural Relics Ex Translated by: Wang Guozhen |
| ISBN10-13: 192537131X : 9781925371314 |
| In about the 11th cnetury BC, the Shangg Dynasty declined in national strength, and was destroyed by King Wu of Zhou and a capital was established in Haojing- west of what is now Xi'an, in Shanxi Province. This period is known as the Western Zhou Dynasty. Handicrafts were monopolised by the royal family and were characterised by more extensive distribution than the Shang Dynasty with more workshops and finer division of labour. Jade was only one of the many handicrafts and as something of value was very popular among royals and vassals. The pieces of importance were artefacts are: the Y3 Tomb of the Gongyu State in Baoji of Shaanxi, Guo State Tombs in Sanmenxia, Luoyang, Henan Province and the Jing State toomb of Gong Yu State in Houma of Shanxi. From this period there are also bronze wares and ceramics. In this period bronze wares chnaged in type, shape and inscription, emblazonary and casting. Cermaics developed significantly and hand stamped hand made pottery flourished. This book, the second in a ten volume collecion, brings to the English speaking world a books from China which has been complied by an Expert Committee of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics. There are 383 desriptions. |
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| Published: ATF Asia - February 2020 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Oriental art : History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 5 : Ancient history: to c 500 CE : Archaeology : China |
| List Price: 46.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics Volume 3 |
| Sub-title: The Qin and Han Dynasties 221BC-220AD |
| Compiled by: Committee of Chinese Society of Cultural Relics Ex Translated by: Wang Guozhen, Zhoui Yan |
| ISBN10-13: 1925371344 : 9781925371345 |
| After a period of many years, unification was the desire by all at the end of the Warring States Period. Six separate states, Han, Zhao, Yan, Wei, Chu and Qi unified with the establishment of a centralised feudal state. Although the Qin Dynasty was quickly overthrown due to tyranny, there was the implimentation of a range of policies conducive to unification which had far-reaching and signbificant impacts on society lasting 2,000 years. The Han Dynasty folowed and inherited the Qin system. in the Han Dynasty there were brilliant socio-political, economic, military, cultural and artistic achievements, and so this period occupies an important position in the history of the development of Chinese civilzation. the Qin Dynasty was not long and few large toombs have been found, so little is known of the jade ware. From the Han Dynasty much is kmnown and representgs the peak of Chinese jade ware. That is, in terms of number of pieces found, choice of materials and their design as wel as the carvings. The bronze foiundry industry became secondary and its scale of production was shrinking compared to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Gold and silver ware gradually developed to very avances stages. |
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| Published: ATF Asia - February 2020 |
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| Subjects: Oriental art : History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 5 : Ancient history: to c 500 CE : Archaeology : Cultural studies : China |
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