Grace Bakst Wapner’s Scholar’s Garden

An East-West Aesthetic Dialogue

by Sara Lynn Henry

Footnotes

(1) George Rowley, Principles of Chinese Painting, Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, revised edition, l959, 35.

(2) Kuo Hsi [Guo Xi], ed. Kuo Ssu, “Advice on Landscape Painting” and “Meaning of Landscape Painting,” with comments by Gu Xi’s son Kuo Ssu, 1110-1117 CE; translation in Susan Bush and Hsio-yen Shih, ed., Early Chinese Texts on Painting, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985, 156.

(3) Sara Lynn Henry, As If Alive: Animate Sculpture, exhibition and catalogue with essay, Summit, N.J.: Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 2000.

(4) Kemin Hu, The Spirit of Gongshi: Chinese Scholar’s Rocks, Newton, MA: L..H. Inc, n.d., 23.

(5) Du Wan, Yunlin shipu, 12th century; quoted in Robert D. Mowry, World’s Within Worlds, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums, 1997, 21.

(6) Mowry, 21.

(7) Claudia Brown, “Chinese Scholars’ Rocks and the Land of Immortals: Some Insights from Painting,” in Mowry, 59.

(8) See the following and their sources for the scholarly discussion of the translations and commentaries: Bush and Shih, 10-16, and Victor H. Mair, “Xie He’s ‘Six Laws’ of Painting and their Indian Parallels,” in Zongqi Cai, Chinese Aesthetics: the Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties, Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2004, 81ff.

(9) Wapner agrees with the author’s assessment, here and below; conversation Aug. 22, 2008.

(10) Quotes and discussion defining qi are primarily from conversation with Hy-Dong Lee, philosopher, Drew University, in emails 8/18/2008-8/21/2008. Professor Lee has published on Hegel and is working on a book on the
concept of qi.

(11) Rowley, 6.

(12) Kuo Jo-hsü in “On the Impossibility of Teaching Spirit Consonance,” translated in Bush and Shih, 95.

(13) First sentence of Fan Kuan quote from Robert Thorp and Richard Ellis Vinograd, Chinese Art & Culture, New York: Prentice Hall and Abrams, 2001; continuation of the quote from Wen C. Fong, “Monumental Landscape Painting,” in Wen C. Fong, et al, Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum and Abrams, 1996, 125.

(14) Rowley, 40-42.

(15) Quoted in Ellen Handy, Grace Bakst Wapner: Dyads, New York: Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, 1994.

(16) Schelling quotes from “On the Relationship of the Creative Arts to Nature (1807), translation in Lorenz Eitner, Neoclassicism and Romanticism 1750-1850, Vol II, Restoration/Twilight of Humanism, Englewoods Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970, 43-47. Helpful perspectives on Schelling also from philosopher Robert Corrington, Drew University Professor Corrington has published several books on his own philosophy of “ecstatic naturalism,” which has roots both in Western and Asian thought.

(17) From Guo Xi, “Advice on Landscape Painting” with comments by his son Kuo Ssu, translation in Bush 157.

(18) Trunpa quotes and discussion from Chögyam Trungpa, Shambhala the Sacred Path of the Warrior, Boston; Shambhala Publications, 1984, 45-46.