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Sea of Ink (Peirene Press #9)
Sea of Ink, published in Switzerland in 2005, won the Prix des Audituers de la Radio Suisse Romande.
A beautiful novella in 50 short chapters and 10 pictures about the life of Bada Shanren, the most influential Chinese painter of all times.
In 1626, Bada Shanren is born into the Chinese royal family. When the old Ming Dynasty crumbles, he becomes an artist, committed to cap...more
A beautiful novella in 50 short chapters and 10 pictures about the life of Bada Shanren, the most influential Chinese painter of all times.
In 1626, Bada Shanren is born into the Chinese royal family. When the old Ming Dynasty crumbles, he becomes an artist, committed to cap...more
Paperback, 112 pages
Published
September 9th 2012
by Peirene Press
(first published February 28th 2003)
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This little book is about a 17th century prince who becomes a monk, and then a painter and calligrapher. It’s a series of cameos about the artist Bada Shanren – flitting from one era of his life to the next. Events fly past with an amorphous stamping of a moment in time – not unlike the infinitely delicate paintings which are illustrated and described in this beautiful book. The book flits though Shanren’s life . He often changes his name – Zhu Da, Chunanqu, Xuege, Geshan, and finally Bada Shanr...more
An historical novel and poetic meditation by a German writer concerning the life of a seventeenth-century Chinese artist and calligrapher. This layering of time, identity and culture is an echo of the hero's life, which, shaped by the upheavals of that period in Chinese history, finds him, as a member of a violently-deposed ruling clan, fleeing his home, losing his family and entering a long period of monastic exile, during which he is tutored in the spiritual mysteries of applying ink to paper...more
In this small book "Sea Of Ink" Richard Weihe portrays the painter and calligrapher Bada Shanren, a prince of the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the 17th century.
As a series of sketches in black ink and in brief chapters Weihe outlines the steps in the life of a man who was a prince with a promised bright future, a fugitive, a Buddhist monk and founder of a monastery, a vagabond and considered mad. A man who takes during his lifetime many different names in a long spiritual quest materialized by his i...more
As a series of sketches in black ink and in brief chapters Weihe outlines the steps in the life of a man who was a prince with a promised bright future, a fugitive, a Buddhist monk and founder of a monastery, a vagabond and considered mad. A man who takes during his lifetime many different names in a long spiritual quest materialized by his i...more
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The fictionalized biography of a 17th Century Chinese painter, this is a gorgeous book, lush and sparse at once. What I enjoyed most was the tightening scope of the novel: it begins with the broad sweep of history and large political changes occurring in China through war and invasion, but moves ever inward from there. As the painter protagonist Shanren Badu strips away more and more his external life to focus on his art and the perfection of his inked lines, the novel becomes equally focused an...more
Beautiful and impressionistic, more like a poem than a novel. A little hard to get into, but worth it. Full review here: http://littlewordsreview.wordpress.co...
Beautiful, elegant book about the life of painter Bada Shanren, with accompanying illustrations. Striking in its simplicity, but full of depth and thoughtfulness. I love these little Peireine Press books!
'A path comes into existance by being walked on'
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