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Spirit Stones ─ The Ancient Art of the Scholar's Rock
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Brilliant photographs of scholars' rocks, or Chinese ornamental stones, from a leading collection
Shaped by nature and selected by man, scholars' rocks, or gongshi, have been prized by Chinese intellectuals since the Tang dynasty, and are now sought after by Western collectors as well.
They are a natural subject for the photographer Jonathan Singer, most recently acclaimed for his images of those other remarkable hybrids of art and nature, Japanese bonsai.
Here Singer turns his lens on some 150 fine gongshi, ancient and modern, from the world-class collection of Kemin Hu, a recognized authority on this art form. In his photographs, Singer captures the spiritual qualities of these stones as never thought possible in two dimensions; he shows us that scholars' rocks truly are, in Hu's words, "condensations of the vital essence and energy of heaven and earth."
Hu contributes an introductory essay on the history and aesthetics of scholars' rocks, explaining the traditional terms of stone appreciation, such as shou (thin), zhou (wrinkled), lou (channels), and tou (holes). She also provides a narrative caption for each stone, describing its history and characteristics.
Shaped by nature and selected by man, scholars' rocks, or gongshi, have been prized by Chinese intellectuals since the Tang dynasty, and are now sought after by Western collectors as well.
They are a natural subject for the photographer Jonathan Singer, most recently acclaimed for his images of those other remarkable hybrids of art and nature, Japanese bonsai.
Here Singer turns his lens on some 150 fine gongshi, ancient and modern, from the world-class collection of Kemin Hu, a recognized authority on this art form. In his photographs, Singer captures the spiritual qualities of these stones as never thought possible in two dimensions; he shows us that scholars' rocks truly are, in Hu's words, "condensations of the vital essence and energy of heaven and earth."
Hu contributes an introductory essay on the history and aesthetics of scholars' rocks, explaining the traditional terms of stone appreciation, such as shou (thin), zhou (wrinkled), lou (channels), and tou (holes). She also provides a narrative caption for each stone, describing its history and characteristics.
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Jonathan M. Singer's first two volumes of photography, Botanica Magnifica and Fine Bonsai, have been widely acclaimed. For his remarkable style of photography, marrying art and science, Singer himself has been honored with the Hasselblad Laureate Award (2008) and the Carl Linnaeus Silver Medal of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (2009). His appointments include that of Research Collaborator at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Kemin Hu was tutored in the appreciation of scholars' stones by her father, a noted connoisseur of Chinese antiquities; she is today one of the foremost experts on scholars' stones and author of several books on the subject, including Modern Chinese Scholars' Rocks, Scholars' Rocks in Ancient China: The Suyuan Stone Catalogue, and The Spirit of Gongshi.
Thomas Elias, Ph.D., is a former director of the U.S. National Arboretum and the U.S. National Bonsai and Penjing Museums, Washington, D.C.
Kemin Hu was tutored in the appreciation of scholars' stones by her father, a noted connoisseur of Chinese antiquities; she is today one of the foremost experts on scholars' stones and author of several books on the subject, including Modern Chinese Scholars' Rocks, Scholars' Rocks in Ancient China: The Suyuan Stone Catalogue, and The Spirit of Gongshi.
Thomas Elias, Ph.D., is a former director of the U.S. National Arboretum and the U.S. National Bonsai and Penjing Museums, Washington, D.C.
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