Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong

Contents

vii Contents List of Illustrations viii Acknowledgements xi A Note on Romanization and Translation xv Introduction 1 1 Fou Lei: Shanghai and Paris 11 2 On Art: Fou Lei’s Early Writings 27 Fou Lei, ‘The Crisis in Modern Chinese Art’, 1932 40 Fou Lei, ‘I Will Say It Again: Where Are We Headed? ... To the Depths!’, 1933 45 3 Huang Binhong and Fou Lei 49 The Early Correspondence 62 Fou Lei, Letter to Huang Binhong, 25 May [1943] 66 Huang Binhong, Letter to Fou Lei, 4 June [1943] 67 Fou Lei, Letter to Huang Binhong, 9 June [1943] 68 Huang Binhong, Letter to Fou Lei, undated [1943] 72 4 Huang Binhong’s First Solo Show Curated by Fou Lei 75 Fou Lei, ‘Viewing Paintings and Answering Questions’, Huang Binhong exhibition catalogue, 1943 89 5 Artistic Conversations 101 Fou Lei’s International Contacts 106 An Abbreviated Brush 126 6 Politics and Culture: China in the 1950s 135 7 Huang Binhong: The Artistic Legacy 159 The Cultural Revolution 165 Fou Lei, Letter to Song Ruoying, 24 March 1955 180 Fou Lei, Letter to Song Ruoying, 26 March 1955 181 Fou Lei, Letter to Huang Yuan, 31 March 1957 182 Fou Lei, ‘Some Comments on the Field of National Painting’, 1955 185 Fou Lei, ‘Suggestions on Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of the Late Artist Huang Binhong and on Editing and Printing a Volume of His Paintings’, 1962 188 Fou Lei, ‘Introduction to The Letters of Binhong’, 1962 192 8 Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong 195 Notes 203 Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms 213 References 219 Index 227 ...