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Ink wash virtualities in Qing landscape painting

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  • Rob Shields
  • Ge Zheng

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This study considers virtuality in Qing ink wash landscape paintings via an album by Pan Gongshou (1741–94). We examine the painterly devices by which a liminal, ‘virtual,’ space is constructed as a ‘realm’ or world in which the viewer is synaesthetically absorbed into a landscape image. Landscape in this tradition is not a pure creation of the human gaze, nor a representation of material elements and topography. We examine the painterly devices through which a sublime loss of critical distance is linked to the represented elements to absorb the viewer into what Wang Guoweii (1877–1927) proposed as a ‘realm without self.’ Virtualities are intangible but real; they supplement material elements that are represented, changing their meaning and affect. These qualities are at the heart of a geometry of gazes and relations that compose the visual experience of a virtual landscape.

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  • Rob Shields & Ge Zheng, 2022. "Ink wash virtualities in Qing landscape painting," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(8), pages 1039-1051, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:47:y:2022:i:8:p:1039-1051
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2022.2121809
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