{"id":377,"date":"2008-03-15T08:56:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T13:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/2008\/03\/conceptual-art\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:38:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:38:49","slug":"conceptual-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2008\/03\/conceptual-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Conceptual art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2008\/03\/13\/arts\/22320801.JPG\" title=\"Two pines\" alt=\"Two pines\" height=\"323\" width=\"485\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several generations later, in Zhao Mengfu\u2019s \u201cTwin Pines, Level Distance,\u201d something new appears. No more realism; no more romanticism; in a sense, no more painting. Now the landscape image is an extension of writing, a form of embodied thought, an essence of landscapeness, a text to be read. In the contemporary West we have a term for this: conceptual art.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With Asia Week in New York the NYT has<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/14\/arts\/design\/14asia.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\"> a review<\/a> of a show called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/Special\/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B9870D849-9235-4458-BC8C-E9C74CB7D18A%7D\">Anatomy of a Masterpiece: How to Read Chinese Paintings<\/a>\u201d There is a slide-show too! It looks like a nice show and a good book. Given some of the interest in connecting Chinese art to western traditions in the last post and the comments I thought I would post this.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/48385.html\">HNN\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Several generations later, in Zhao Mengfu\u2019s \u201cTwin Pines, Level Distance,\u201d something new appears. No more realism; no more romanticism; in a sense, no more painting. Now the landscape image is an extension of writing, a form of embodied thought, an essence of landscapeness, a text to be read. In the contemporary West we have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,83,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-visual-culture","category-web-sites-and-resources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-65","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4856,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/4856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}