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| Commendation by Professor Ellen Johnston Laing (University of Michigan) Author of Selling Happiness: Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early Twentieth Century Shanghai (University of Hawaii Press, 2004), Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Popular Prints: Selections from the Muban Foundation Collection (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2002) and The Winking Owl: Art in the People's Republic of China (University of California Press, 1988).
New Wine in Old Bottles, lavishly illustrated and impeccably researched, is a significant contribution to our understanding of painting in Shanghai
during the nineteenth century. In this volume, the author elucidates means by which the famous Shanghai artist, Ren Bonian (1840-1895), actively coping with the new, modern environment of this commercial center, bridged the old and the new as well as the literary and the popular in his art. Among the highlights in this book, Yang's investigation of urban Shanghai life, including merchants, writers, art dealers, brothels and gardens, allows her to decipher the new, modern meanings given to the ancient subjects Ren depicted. In analyzing his portraiture, Yang not only demonstrates Ren's relationship to the traditional print mode embodied in the well-known Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual and but also how Ren was influenced by Western art as taught at the Jesuit enclave at Xujiahui with its art school headed by trained Western artists.
She reveals how Ren appropriated elements of realism from portrait photography and she describes his use of the brighter foreign pigments being imported into China. This immensely rich study concludes with a much welcomed and exceptionally valuable exposition and assessment of the ways in which the works of this popular artist might be imitated and counterfeited and such forgeries can be detected. With careful thought and fresh perspectives, the author links painting, people, places, history, and social and economic forces, into a compelling approach to art in Shanghai history.
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| Saffron Studies in East Asian Art |
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New Wine in Old Bottles: The Art of Ren Bonian in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai
Chialing Yang
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| 2007 |
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Soft cover [HB to follow] |
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| ISBN |
9781872843513
297mm [h] x 210mm [w]
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| ISBN-10 |
1872843514 |
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288pp |
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| UK Price |
GBP 34.95 |
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| Shipping weight |
1800g approx |
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| Published by Saffron Books |
| Distributed by Saffron Distribution |
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About New Wine in Old Bottles
While modern scholars dwell frequently on the transmission of western art and its influence on twentieth-century Chinese painting, the flow of 'modernisation' and foreign influences actually began during the late nineteenth century, through contacts between the Shanghai Painting School, Japan and the West.
New Wine in Old Bottles explains the interrelationship of the most celebrated painter of this period, Ren Bonian (1840-1895), and the cultural circumstances defined by his urban environment — the treaty port of Shanghai from the first Opium War (1839~1842) to the First Sino-Japanese War (1895~1896).
Building upon and departing from the usual approaches adopted by art historians, this study adopts two key themes which appear continuously throughout —
- Shanghai as the location of China’s first phase of modernity, technological experimentation and innovation
- Shanghai as a metropolitan magnet for cultural pluralism and social change.
In taking Ren Bonian as a key exemplar, Chialing Yang explores the degrees to which a traditional Chinese artist chose to adapt and adopt — and assume a new role as modern-day man in a changing society, and the extent to which he accepted or refused foreign conventions. In viewing Ren’s art in the context of nineteenth-century Shanghai, the reader is invited to consider the artist’s work as a source not only of information about his education and class, but also about the 'situation' of the artist. The situations that had reinforced the popular appeal of Ren’s art in his times are consequently what defined the Shanghai School and its modernity.
About the Author
Chialing Yang researches principally on Chinese Painting, early photography and modern Chinese art and its interactions with Japan and the West. She received her first degree from the Department of Chinese Literature at the National Taiwan University and MA in Art History from the University of Warwick. She completed her PhD in Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Before she was appointed as a permanent faculty member at SOAS, Dr Yang was lecturer at the Department of Art History at the University of Sussex, a visiting scholar at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to research and teach Art History at the University of Chicago. Dr Yang has also lectured in Hong Kong and at the British Museum on Chinese Painting. She has contributed to publications in modern Chinese art, including a precursor to this volume, 'Choices and conflicts — Artistic responses to foreign stimuli in late Qing Shanghai,' in East Asia Journal, available to view on East Asia Journal website.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
I | Ren Bonian's Early Life and Art
- a Two Questions in His Early Biography
- b Travels in Jiangnan
- c Newcomer in Shanghai
- d Vulgar or Sophisticated?
II | Old Bottles and New Wine -- Painting the Vanity Dream in Shanghai
- a Picture of Making Merry
- b World of Entertainment
- c Overlapping Patronage – Ren Bonian’s Customers and Pleasure Quarter Patrons
- d Story of the Story
- e Travellers of Both Sexes
- f New Wine in Old Bottles
III | From the Mustard Seed Garden to Tushanwan Part I | Traditional Approaches in Ren Bonian's portraiture
- a Pictorial Index of Shanghai Elites
- b Reality and Traditional Training
- c Reality and Literati Play
- d Reality and Role Play
IV | From Mustard Seed Garden to Tushanwan Part II | Foreign stimuli in Ren Bonian’s portraits
- a Western Influenced Painting and Woodcut Illustrations in Shanghai
- b Liu Bizhen and the Craft School of Tushanwan, Xuji
- c Photography and Portraiture
- d Conflicts of Accepting Scientific Reality
- e A Parting
V | Fame and Shame -- Authentic and Counterfeit Figure Paintings
- a Ways of Making Copies
- b Identifying Counterfeit Painting
- c People Who Related to Copy Making
- d Background Sources for Studying Forgeries of Ren Bonian’s Figure Painting
VI | A Slave to Painting
Bibliography
Appendix A | Ren Bonian’s Artistic Circle
Appendix B | A Study of Seals
Index
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