Author: RUITENBECK, KLAAS; WITH AN ESSAY BY STANLEY-BAKER, JOAN
Title: Discarding the Brush, Gao Qipei (1660-1734) and the Art of Chinese Finger Painting
Description: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. 1992, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9053490507). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English and Dutch text.; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket).; 25.5 x 31 cm.; 2.5 Kg.; 342 pages with black and white and colour illustrations throughout.; Used with minor signs of wear on the exterior and interior. Sign of an erased pencil signature on the top right of the title page. Very good condition overall.; Catalogue from the exhitition Discarding the Brush, Gao Qipei (1660-1734) and the art of Chinese finger painting, held at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam from December 12 1992 to February 28 1993.; "'Discarding the Brush, Gao Qipei (1660-1734) and the art of Chinese finger painting' is the second Gao Qipei exhibition to be held anywhere in the world. The first was in 1963, in the Liaoning Provincial Museum at Shenyang. Organised by Yang Renkai, it featured more than a hundred works by Gao Qipei. Anyone at all familiar with Chinese art will have heard of Gao Qipei, the man who painted with his fingers. A hundred scrolls and albums are on show in the exhibition. Sixty of them are Gao Qipei's work, thirty are by artists who emulated him from the eighteenth to the twentieth, including six exhibits by the Japanese painter Ikeno Taiga. The exhibition hinges on Gao Qipei's well-know album of landscapes acquired by Jan Fontein, the Rijksmuseum's former curator of Asiatic art, for the Society of Friends of Asiatic Art in 1955, since when it has been on extended loan to the museum. The society of Friends of Asiatic Art was founded in 1918 by a group of private individuals for the purpose of forming a public collection of Asiatic Art, the first of its kind in the Netherlands. Over the years the Society has procured more than fourteen hundred works from China, Japan, India, Indonesia and a number of smaller Asian countries. Though not particularly large, in terms of artistic quality the collection can hold its own with the best that other countries have to offer. Take the Gao Qipei album, for instance: it has been reproduced time and again in authoritative manuals on Chinese painting, and is acknowledge in China and Japan as one of Gao Qipei's best works. The exhibition 'Discarding the Brush' marks the seventy-fifth jubilee of the society of Friends of Asiatic Art, and is the Rijksmuseum's special tribute to the society. The loans come from twenty museums and eleven private collections." excerpt from the foreword. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Keywords: 9053490507 china,chinese art,chinese painting,gao qipei,rijksmuseum Asian Art Chinese Art


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