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摘要
The seal-carver and calligrapher Xu Sangeng 徐三更 (1826-1890) left Shaoxing for Shanghai as a young man, and he spent most of his life traveling throughout south China, living at the estates of wealthy officials as a “guest artist.” He fashioned an artistic identity for himself of “the alchemist,” a calligrapher who could creatively transform antique sources into something new. He made two tours of Guangdong in the late 1870s, at the behest of his friend, the controversial journalist Wang Tao 王韜 (1828-1897). In his final years, Xu settled in Shanghai as a professional artist and teacher. Several of his students were businessmen from Japan. His student Maruyama Shin’itsu 圓山真逸 (1838-1916) was responsible for popularizing Xu’s style in Japan. After Xu’s death, in 1891, Maruyama returned to Shanghai, where he rediscovered a lost seal-stone that he authenticated as from the hand of Xu Sangeng. The seal-stone went to Japan with him. Then, in 2017, it was returned to China and sold at auction.
講者
Prof. Amy McNair
Amy McNair is Professor of Chinese Art History at the University of Kansas. She is Editor-in-chief of Artibus Asiae and a founding Board Member of the Association for Chinese Art History. Her research areas include Chinese calligraphy and Buddhist sculpture, and her current focus in teaching is the garden culture of China and Japan. Her recent book, The Painting Master’s Shame: Liang Shicheng and the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings, was published by Harvard Asia Center in 2023. Her current research project focuses on the seal-carving and calligraphy of Xu Sangeng.
