An artistic exile : a life of Feng Zikai (1898-1975)
"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."
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2002
Biographies
xi, 471 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780520208322, 0520208323
47791167
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
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--First prelim. page
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