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Color as a Holistic Medicine: Lan Ying and his Boneless Landscape
Zhu, Ying
Zhu, Ying
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This paper investigates the iconography and the material features of Lan Ying’s boneless landscape and its relationship with the practice of “nourishing life,” or yangsheng養生. It argues that Lan Ying's boneless landscape paintings were medicinal landscapes that facilitated the cultivation of the physical body (yang xing 養形) and the nurturing of the spirit (yang shen 養神). The archaic color style, the subject matter, and the materiality of Lan’s painting had an intimate relationship with Daoist alchemy, the legendary special diets, and Chinese medicine, transforming Lan’s immortal landscape into a healing device intended to bring longevity to his patrons.
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These are the slides from a presentation given at the CAA 113th Annual Conference on 02/13/2025.
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2025-02-13
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University of Kansas
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Boneless landscape, Color, Nourishing life, Medicine