Author: Barmé, Geremie Randall
Title: An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898-1975)
Description: Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002. Hardcover. A light gray casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in white down a gray spine. Pages: (14), 1-471, (1). Illustated in black-and-white. "This book, a blend of biography of criticism, tells the story of Feng Zikai (1898-1975), one of the most gifted and important artists to emerge from the politically tumultuous decades of the 1920s and 1930s. Barme provides a closely woven parallel history, that of the life of writer-artist Feng, who was also an essayist and a translator, and that of China's turbulent twentieth century. He investigates Feng Zikai's aesthetic vision, its development, and how it relates to traditional and contemporary Chinese cultural values and debates." Contents are as follows: 1. Taking Nature as Master -- 2. Journey to the East -- 3. The Artist and His Epithet -- 4. New Paintings for Old Poems -- 5. The Cult of the Child -- 6. Protecting Life and Preserving the Self -- 7. Marketplace and Mountains -- 8. A Chinese Perspective -- 9. The Artist Liberated -- 10. Belated Blossoming -- Epilogue: The Art of Exile. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on dust jacket at the base of the spine. Sticker on front pasted end page. Stamp on front free end page. Stamp on back free end page. Sticker and due date card on back pasted end page.

Keywords: Asian Artists ; Zikai, Feng ; ;


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