Scrolling Images: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in Handscroll Format

Boxset of 11 hardback volumes, 292 x 216 mm
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The main attraction of the handscroll for the artist is that it is virtually infinite in terms of the development of an idea, or series of ideas. Whether painting a landscape or writing drunken poetry, you go on until you reach a logical conclusion, then you stop. For this reason, most of the finest Chinese artists produced their most important works as handscrolls.The format takes the arts of painting and calligraphy far beyond the mere image; like a musical experience, it allows development, variation, climax and anticlimax, the subtle relationship of one aspect of a theme to another, contrasting with another aspect here and another relationship there.

One volume of educative and lively text is accompanied by handscrolls dating between 1363 and 1798, reproduced in 10 volumes in the sympathetic format of the fold-out.

• Chang Wu: Eight Immortals Of The Wine Cup (1363)

• Ch’ien Ku: Chung K’uei Moving House (1557)

• Wang Chien (1520-90): Eighteen Lohan Crossing the Sea (late 16th century)

• Tung Ch’i –ch’ang: Elegant Gathering At Ch’ing-Lin (early 17th century)

• Chang Jui-T’u : Three Tu Fu Poems in Ts’ao-Shu (early 17th century)

• Wang Chien (1598-1677): Scenery of Mount Yu (1662)

• Cha Shih-Piao: Scenery of the Hsiao and Hsiang (second half of 17th century)

• Leng Mei: The Eighteen Lohan (late 17th century)

• Spring Morning in the Han Palace (c. 1700)

• Ch’ien Tien: Excerpt from the Commentare on the Water Classic (1798)

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Specialists in Chinese and Japanese Art