The development and historical status of landscape painting in the Song Dynasty

This volume describes the history of the development and evolution of art in the Five Dynasties, Two Songs, Liao, Xia, Xia and Jin dynasties. The time is bounded by the demise of the Tang Dynasty and the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, from 907 to 1279 AD. Involving many aspects such as painting, sculpture, calligraphy, arts and crafts, architecture, and art history writings. The politics of this era are either divided or combined. Lots of turmoil. The society and culture are in the juncture between ancient and modern times. The literati class is full of scholarly atmosphere. At the same time, the development of urban economy has also promoted the prosperity of citizen culture in Wasegoulanjian. Art has thus shown several processes including a high degree of scholar-ization, aristocraticization, and extensive and profound secularization. The rise of literati painting, the scale of courtyard painting, the rapid development of landscape and flower scroll paintings, new achievements in calligraphy art in running script, the excellent quality of Song porcelain, etc., have become representatives of the art of the times. This volume is based on a large number of detailed images and documents. It makes a relatively comprehensive review of the forms of various types of art and the evolutionary characteristics of artistic language in this era, summarizing the artistic achievements achieved, as well as the progress in artistic concepts and Important contributions in theories and writings, and thus demonstrate their historical status in art history.