Chronology Entry
Year
1928
Text
Moore, Marianne. Guide-posts to Chinese painting. In : The Dial ; no 84 (April 1928). [Review of Guide-posts to Chinese painting, by Louise Wallace Hackney, edited by Dr. Paul Pelliot (Houghton Mifflin)]. [ID D30326].
That a delighted consideration of art should be less than delightful ; that as writing and as thinking it should be occidentally 'promt' is in this survey compensated for by illustrations such as 'Winter Landscape', 'Narcissus', a 'Ming Ancestral Portrait' ; and one is as attentive as the author could wish one to be, to the 'ideals and methods' of Chinese painting, to 'influences and beliefs reflected in it', and the influence exerted by it. Any lover of beauty may well be grateful to a book which commemorated the blade of grass as model for the study of the straight line, the skill of calligraphers, with 'hog's hair on finely woven silk', 'methods of treating mountain wrinkles', 'tones of ink to give color', 'the thought of genii, winged tigers, and Emperor crossing' 'weak waters' on a 'bridge made of turtles', 'or a theme so romantic as that of Yang Kuei-fei' [Yang Guifei] going, 'lily pale, between tall avenues of spears to die'.
That a delighted consideration of art should be less than delightful ; that as writing and as thinking it should be occidentally 'promt' is in this survey compensated for by illustrations such as 'Winter Landscape', 'Narcissus', a 'Ming Ancestral Portrait' ; and one is as attentive as the author could wish one to be, to the 'ideals and methods' of Chinese painting, to 'influences and beliefs reflected in it', and the influence exerted by it. Any lover of beauty may well be grateful to a book which commemorated the blade of grass as model for the study of the straight line, the skill of calligraphers, with 'hog's hair on finely woven silk', 'methods of treating mountain wrinkles', 'tones of ink to give color', 'the thought of genii, winged tigers, and Emperor crossing' 'weak waters' on a 'bridge made of turtles', 'or a theme so romantic as that of Yang Kuei-fei' [Yang Guifei] going, 'lily pale, between tall avenues of spears to die'.
Mentioned People (2)
Hackney, Louise Wallace
(um 1927)
Moore, Marianne
(Kirkwood, Miss. 1887-1972 New York, N.Y.) : Dichterin, Schriftstellerin
[Permission for quotations by Cynthia Stamy and Qian Zhaoming].
[Permission for quotations by Cynthia Stamy and Qian Zhaoming].
Subjects
Art : Painting and Calligraphy
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Literature : Occident : United States of America
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1986 | Moore, Marianne. The complete prose of Marianne Moore. Ed. and with an introd. by Patricia C. Willis. (New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1986). S. 255. | Publication / Moo7 |
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