• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Experiential Readings and the Grand View: "Mount Jizu" by Huang Xiangjian (1609—1673)
  • Beteiligte: Kindall, Elizabeth
  • Erschienen: College Art Association, 2012
  • Erschienen in: The Art Bulletin, 94 (2012) 3, Seite 412-436
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISSN: 0004-3079
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  • Beschreibung: Some Chinese artists exploited the spatial and temporal potential of the handscroll format by moving beyond traditional linear readings to experiential readings. Huang Xiangjian, for example, in 1656 composed a pictorial ascent of Mount Jizu in Yunnan Province that lent itself to such a constructed experience. Its reception combined a knowledgeable reading of the artist's picture and inscription with viewers' ability to visualize the mountain's polyvalent topography in full from the summit. This transformative experience culminates in a daguan, or "grand view": an elevated, panoramic prospect metaphorically implying the comprehensive understanding of certain enlightened individuals.