Object in Focus: The Admonitions Scroll

Jan Stuart

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: British Museum Press, GB, 2014

0714151084 / 9780714151083

Serie: Libro 21 di 28 - Object in Focus

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The Admonitions scroll is an internationally recognized masterpiece of narrative painting and is arguably the earliest surviving Chinese painting. Painted in ink and colour on silk and traditionally attributed to the 'founding figure' of Chinese painting, Gu Kaizhi (c.345-c.406), the scroll entered the British Museum in 1903 and has become one of its most famous objects. The scroll illustrates a poem written in AD 292 by the poet-official Zhang Hua (232-300), who was reprimanding Empress Jia (257-300) who had wantonly abandoned the Confucian-based ethical behaviour expected of court ladies, including personal sacrifice to save the emperor should he be in danger. The Admonitions scroll was painted centuries later in order to admonish a different wayward ruler - this time an emperor himself. While didactic and morally instructive, the painted scenes also reveal deep psychological insights into some of the figures as well as offer touching glimpses of court life, including in the bedchamber and a grooming session with the children. Modern scholarship holds that the Admonitions scroll dates from the sixth to eighth century AD. While it may or may not be a copy of an original work by Gu, without doubt it accurately represents a style current in his lifetime and as such represents the seminal development of the features that came to distinguish Chinese ink painting as a distinctive world tradition. The Admonitions scroll has been held in many prestigious Chinese private and imperial collections, as well as having been copied by other Chinese artists, before arriving in London over a century ago. The story of the scroll is of fascinating historical interest and this accessible and beautifully illustrated book really gets to the heart of it.…

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Titolo
Object in Focus: The Admonitions Scroll
Autore
Jan Stuart
Editore
British Museum Press, GB
Anno di pubblicazione
2014
Condizione
New
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0714151084
ISBN 13
9780714151083
Peso dell'articolo
190 grammi
Dimensioni
14.7 x 0.8 x 21 cm
Serie
Libro 21 di 28: Object in Focus

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