Lecture 9B: Political and Poetic Themes in Southern Song Painting

Watch in HD1080p: A consideration of political themes in Southern Song Academy painting, especially in works by Li Tang and his followers, ends with long sections on two subjects of this kind: buffalo and herd boy paintings and paintings of swimming fish. The part that follows, on poetic themes in Southern Song, is largely devoted to works ascribed to Ma Hezhi. A great anonymous handscroll of this period, the “Dream Journey in the Xiao-Xiang Region,“ is shown at length, and followed by shorter treatments of other handscrolls, including those illustrating “Wenji’s Return to China.“