The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll

The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll

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The first extended history of the Chinese picture-scroll.  
The Chinese picture-scroll, a long, horizontal painting or calligraphic work, has been China’s pre-eminent aesthetic form throughout the last two millennia. This first history of the picture-scroll explores its extraordinary longevity and 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 left their marks on scrolls for later generations to judge. Shane McCausland is the Percival David Professor of the History of Art at SOAS University of London. His many books include The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271–1368, also published by Reaktion Books.

Introduction
Chapter One On Origins and Uses over the First Millennium
Chapter Two Inscribing the Artist and the Collector: The Picture-Scroll in the Song–Liao–Jin Period
Chapter Three Handscrolls in Mongol Palaces
Chapter Four Musing on Shadows: Reading the Ming Picture-Scroll
Chapter Five Qing: Reading the ‘Baroque’ Handscroll
Chapter Six Modernist Uses of the Chinese Picture-Scroll
Chapter Seven The Medium of Silent Poetry in the Late Modern World
References
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Index
“Eruditely written. . . . A welcome addition to the corpus of studies on Chinese painting, written by a scholar deeply immersed in the subject and well able to share his knowledge with the reader in an engaging and lively way.”

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Dimensions 1 × 8 × 10 in