Abstract
The concept "traditional Chinese painting" was originally a by-product of the establishment of a national state. In the process of naming, there existed an intervention of state power and a repression of cultural diversity. At the same time, concepts related to "traditional Chinese painting", such as the artist's identity, ink, the artistic function of Chinese painting, were also changed with the expansion of the concept "Chinese painting". In the early Republican China, when the West stood out as the other, the positions of "the Westernized Chinese style" or "the Sinicized Western style" underpinning experimental arts were further highlighted, showing the dislocation of modernity on the temporal and spatial dimensions. In the long-term discourse interpretation, the concept of "traditional Chinese painting" gradually took on more complex meanings, thus contributing to the multiplicity of its definitions.
First Page
47
Last Page
57
Recommended Citation
Xiong, Yiran. 2017. "Genesis and Evolution of the Concept "Chinese Painting" — the Art of the Early Republican China." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 37, (1): pp.47-57. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol37/iss1/9
