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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Paintingfront

© Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

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  • Description

    This is the third of four volumes from a 1921 edition of The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. This particular page opening illustrates the method for painting figures at the water’s edge, watching clouds rise. The manual has also been popular outside China. The manuscript annotations in red on this volume are in Japanese, and identify the line of text as part of a poem by the Tang dynasty (AD 618-907) poet and painter Wang Wei (AD 699–759). Xu Bing’s scroll reproduces only half the text given here, and turns the figures to face the opposite direction.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (probable place of creation)
    Date
    1921
    Artist/maker
    after Wang Gai (1645 - 1707) (designer)
    after Wang Wei (AD 701 - 761) (author)
    Material and technique
    photolithograph; bound
    Dimensions
    closed 26 x 15.2 x 1 cm (height x width x depth)
    double page 26 x 25.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed › planographic print › lithograph › photolithograph,
    bound
    Object type index
    visual representation › print,
    communications equipment › book
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
    Accession no.
    LI2009.9

  • 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. 87 on p. 170, p. 151, illus. p. 170 fig. 87

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