Celestial Realm: The Yellow Mountains of China





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For more than three decades, Wang Wusheng has been captivated by the beauty of Mount Huangshanthe Yellow Mountainswhose 72 jutting peaks, fringed with delicate pines, have inspired Chinese landscape painters for centuries. Wusheng's photographic tribute contains 112 sensitive black and white images of this misty, sublimely spiritual placetwo of them gatefolds opening to 27 inchesas well as 14 subtly hued color photographs. Here too, art historian Wu Hung provides an eloquent survey of the region's artistic, literary, and photographic tradition, while Damian Harper describes the geology, geography, and natural history of this legendary place.
"The achingly beautiful stuff that dreams are made of. These granite peaks shrouded in mist look like islands in the cloudsat once serene and strikingly dramatic. The result enthralls, with an almost painful yearning."Artsforum

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