Painting and Calligraphy in the Wu-Tsa-Tsu: Conservative Aesthetics in Seventeenth-Century China

Sewall J. Oertling

Painting and Calligraphy in the Wu-Tsa-Tsu: Conservative Aesthetics in Seventeenth-Century China
Format
Hardback
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Country
United States
Published
1 January 1997
Pages
226
ISBN
9780892640980

Painting and Calligraphy in the Wu-Tsa-Tsu: Conservative Aesthetics in Seventeenth-Century China

Sewall J. Oertling

The late-Ming official Hsieh Chao-che traveled widely, spending most of his career in the provinces. His Wu-tsa-tsu (Five miscellanies) is a priceless resource on Chinese thought and aesthetics in a period of profound political and social change. Oertling’s complete translation of the sections on painting and calligraphy is exhaustively annotated and accompanied by a lengthy interpretive essay. Oertling examines the major critical trends of the age: the orthodox, with its emphasis on direct study of classic works, and the heterodox, which encouraged personal expression and change.

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