书名：A Defiant Brush: Su Renshan and the Politics of Painting in Early 19th-Century Guangdong / 叛逆的画笔：苏仁山与19世纪初广东的绘画政治
定价：380.0
ISBN：9780824841034
作者：Yeeewan Koon
版次：1
出版时间：2014-01

内容提要：

题 目：A Defiant Brush: Su Renshan and the Politics of Painting in Early 19th-Century Guangdong / 叛逆的画笔：苏仁山与19世纪初广东的绘画政治

作 者：Yeeewan Koon

出 版：Univrsity of Hawaii Press，2014

装 帧：精装，248页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：20.3*27.9 cm

 

 

As the Opium War unfolded in Guangdong Province, the painter Su Renshan (1814– c.1850) exploded onto the art scene with a bold, paradigm-turning new voice. A Defiant Brush takes a fresh look at this under appreciated artist in the context of a nascent Chinese modernism.

 

In 1839 Guangzhou shifted from a cosmopolitan trading center with a diverse art world into a place of violence. During the following decade, one voice of discontent and defiance rang outabove all others: Su Renshan’s. His provocative, uncompromising, and sometimes ugly paintings berate Confucius for his hypocrisy. He turned his brush trace into graphic lines that mimic the printed page, and he depicted women as alternative exemplars of amoral intelligentsia. Yeewan Koon’s close readings of Su Renshan’s paintings within the rich contextual history of art in Guangdong Province reveal how the trauma of war prompted a re-evaluation of social and political values and the moral responsibility of a scholar-artist.