Author ｜
Pingyuan Chen
Abstract ｜
This thesis aims to study the “discovery and interpretation of landscape” in the late Qing pictorials. It comprises four parts: “The Western Pictorials Spreading to the East,” “From Jiangshan-Style to Urban Style,” “Between Newspapers and Painting Albums,” and “The Culture and Politics in the Transformation of Landscape.” The “cultural exchange” could offer directly a model, or indirectly an inspiration, or only mental summons. Likewise, the traditional resources could be directly borrowed, or indirectly appropriated, or “inherited from uncle to nephew” as said by Viktor Shklovsky. Except for the inspirations of Western pictorials, the discovery of landscape in the late Qing pictorials benefited more from Chinese traditional landscape paintings, folklore paintings and urban paintings. The “landscape” in the late Qing pictorials experienced a journey form the West to the East and finally shaped its form of adorable “local scenery” with the reference of “Scenery Paintings” in structure and production style.
keywords ｜
landscape, pictorial, painting album, folklore painting, scenery painting