Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting chronicles the life of a modern art form.
In the late 1910s Chinese painters began working outdoors.
They also adopted linear perspective and Cartesian optics.
Yi Gu reflects on the complex interaction of local and Western aesthetics within the new form and on the nature of visual modernity in China.
Illustrations: 18 photos, 67 color photos.
Harvard University, Asia Center Chinese ways of seeing and open-air painting, paperback/yi gu
