China's Southern Paradise

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Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta

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China's Southern Paradise offers a comprehensive survey of art from the lower Yangzi River delta, highlighting the region's influential role in defining Chinese art throughout history. Focusing on the artistic production and cultural impact of the lower Yangzi River delta, also known as Jiangnan, this volume... Read More

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China's Southern Paradise

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A survey of art from the lower Yangzi River delta that explores the region’s influential role in defining Chinese art throughout history

Description

China's Southern Paradise offers a comprehensive survey of art from the lower Yangzi River delta, highlighting the region's influential role in defining Chinese art throughout history.

Focusing on the artistic production and cultural impact of the lower Yangzi River delta, also known as Jiangnan, this volume features more than 200 objects from Neolithic times through the eighteenth century. These objects range in media from jade, silk, prints, and paintings to porcelain, lacquer, and bamboo carvings.

Essays by internationally renowned scholars cover topics such as Jiangnan in poetry, the region's economy, silk production, southern green stoneware, landscape painting, colour print production and urban culture, Buddhism, and garden culture.

The essays and object entries consider how the region—home to such great cities as Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Nanjing, along with hilly picturesque landscapes stretched along rivers and lakes—became the epicentre of the Chinese art scene and largely defined the image of traditional China.

This study presents both iconic and previously unpublished works from collections around the world. It is the first English-language consideration of a region that has been one of China's most rich, populous, fertile, and artistically influential areas through the course of millennia.

Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art

Exhibition Schedule:

Cleveland Museum of Art
(September 10, 2023–January 7, 2024)

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300273243

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 April 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 336 color + b-w illus.

Contributors:

Edited by Clarissa von Spee
Contributions by Yiwen Liu
Contributions by Richard Von Glahn
Contributions by Masaaki Itakura
Contributions by Yifan Li
Contributions by Tian Xiaofei
Contributions by Shelagh Vainker
Contributions by Wang Cheng-hua
Contributions by Wu Jiang

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 298.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 432

Collections

Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Clarissa von Spee is chair of Asian art and James and Donna Reid Curator of Chinese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.