Abstract
In front of me, spread out randomly (like a patient etherized) on a table, is a set of colour reproductions of paintings by the artist Tang Shu . Some represent paintings I have seen at first-hand in Shanghai, some do not. All of the paintings represented depict closely framed natural scenes: tree branches set against pale skies, some bearing spring blossoms or other flowers; dense patches of bamboo and grasses; accumulations of stones; branches overhanging and/or reflected in water. Each has been made without the structured ordering of foregrounds and backgrounds or the overt application of perspective geometry. No human figures are depicted.
Published in Still Waters Run Deep: Tang Shu Works, exh cat. (Shanghai: Aroundspace Gallery, 2013), no page numbers given.
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Gladston, P. (2016). Objectless Desire. In: Deconstructing Contemporary Chinese Art. Chinese Contemporary Art Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_21
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