| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 藝術史研究所 === 94 === ABSTRACT
The album To See Large Within the Small formally known as Imitations Of Song and Yüan Masters, Copies In Reduced Size: Paintings With Colophons is known by the four oversized characters attributed to Dong Qi-Chang (1555 – 1636), each filling an entire leaf. The album consists of twenty-two copies of Song and Yüan masterpieces. Eighteen have colophons written on the opposite leaf, discussing original attribution, comments on those great masters, the origins of their styles, and the collecting history of the paintings, etc. It is important material for us to study the history of art and collection in the seventeenth century. These imitation replicas are called “reduced copies”, through collecting them the artist constructed an ideal world of painting that can be seen as a canon. The four characters To See Large Within the Small reveal the intent of the album and this thesis explores those themes.
There are four chapters. The first, mainly discusses the attribution of the album. It reviews all different opinions about authorship in the past and tries to find a way to solve this problem, clarifying the contents of the album. The second further discusses how these reduced copies were made. It initially reviews the tradition of copying in Chinese painting history, it goes on to review the history of making reduced copies, and attempts a reconstruction of the conditions under which the album was made. The third discusses the function of the album; in the context of the development of Chinese art; the relationship between the album, draft, and painting manuals; what is its position in the artist’s painting career; the album in the context of pictorializing the collection. The fourth, the inheritance of the album and its influence on those who later reproduced, saw, and assessed it.
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