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Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript

(from 28th Feb until 19th May 2013)

Explore the innovative landscape work of one of China’s most renowned contemporary artists.

Detail of Family Plots, by Xu Bing, Beijing, 1988 (Museum no. LI2007.61)
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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

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  • Description

    This is the third of five volumes from a Republican era (1911-1949) edition of The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. This particular page opening illustrates the artists’ Mi Youren (1074-1151) and Ni Zan’s (1301-1374) method for painting mountains. Mi Youren (1074-1151) was the son of one of the most acclaimed scholar painters of the Song dynasty (AD 960-1279), while Ni Zan (1301-1374) is known as one of the Four Yuan (dynasty) masters. The text on the right-hand page comments on the stylistic consistency between Mi father and son, and so emphasises the role of reproducing iconic standards from previous generations.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (probable place of publication)
    Date
    1911 - 1949
    Artist/maker
    after Wang Gai (1645 - 1707) (designer)
    Associated people
    Mi Youren (1074 - 1151) (named on object)
    Ni Zan (1301 - 1374) (named on object)
    Material and technique
    lithograph; bound
    Dimensions
    closed 28.4 x 17.4 x 1.3 cm (height x width x depth)
    double page 28.2 x 30.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
    Accession no.
    LI2009.11
  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 89 on p. 172, pp. 118, 151, illus. p. 173 fig. 89

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