Image of Transportation: Study on Carts Paintings’ Development in China
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Liang, Jerway
Abstract
Carts paintings in ancient China mainly depict a scene of carts transportation in the wild. In today’s catalogues, most of the remaining carts paintings are attributed to Song dynasty (960-1279) without specific evident. This study tries to use formal analysis to re-date these carts paintings. It then can be possible to discuss the development of the carts paintings through the history, and the meanings of carts painting in Chinese culture. There are three chapters in the thesis. The first goes to figure out the literal meaning of carts painting in Chinese. According to poems and literal descriptions, the basic composition of the carts painting had been developed no later in the 11th century. The second chapter re-dates some Song carts paintings to Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) with formal analysis. It then discusses the development of carts paintings in Mongol China. The third chapter tries to explore the audience response to carts paintings through the poem to discuss why carts painting declined from late 14th century. It then argues that the carts paintings from 16th to 18th centuries may contain the main conscious of tracing back to primitive style. The development of the carts paintings shows its changing meaning to carts transportation through the history in China.
Subjects
carts painting
vehicle image
travelers in painting
ruled-line painting
Type
thesis
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