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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

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  • Description

    This is the second of five volumes of a Republican era (1911-1949) edition of The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. This particular page opening illustrates the 11th century painter Guo Xi’s method for painting trees. Guo Xi is one of China’s most famous artists. He also wrote about landscape painting in an essay that provides instruction as well as comments on theory. He grew up on the edge of north China’s majestic Taihang mountain range, where Xu Bing lived during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and later, for several months, while he was a student. This edition previously belonged to the famous linguist and scholar of Chinese poetry and painting, Dr Arthur Waley (1889-1966).

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (probable place of creation)
    Date
    1911 - 1949
    Artist/maker
    after Guo Xi (c. 1020 - 1090) (artist)
    after Wang Gai (1645 - 1707) (designer)
    Associated people
    Arthur Waley (1889 - 1966) (owner)
    Material and technique
    lithograph; bound
    Dimensions
    closed 28.4 x 17.4 x 1.1 cm (height x width x depth)
    double page 28.2 x 30.2 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
    Accession no.
    LI2009.7
  • 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. 85 on p. 168, pp. 118, 119, 151, 152, illus. p. 152 fig. 6, p. 168, fig. 85

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    • returned to owner

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