Passenger Of Silence: My Quest for the Ancient Arts in Post-cultural Revolution China

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Fabienne Verdier

Passenger Of Silence

My Quest for the Ancient Arts in Post-cultural Revolution China

Fabienne Verdier

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English

Five Continents Editions
01 November 2024

An artist defies the Cultural Revolution to learn the secrets of Chinese painting.

Was it really reasonable to drop everything overnight and go off alone into the depths of Communist China in search of the forgotten secrets of ancient Chinese art? Fabienne Verdier never stopped to ask herself: in the early 1980s, the brilliant young Beaux-Arts student was virtually possessed by the desire to learn the art of painting and calligraphy that had been devastated by the Cultural Revolution.

And when, a foreigner lost in the province of Sichuan, she found herself in an art school run by the Party, she was determined to come to terms with the situation: the language and the mistrust of the Chinese, the unbearable lack of privacy, the poverty and filth all around, disease and the inquisitorial administrative system. Blocking the West totally out of her mind, she became the pupil of great, though despised and marginalised, artists, who introduced her to the secrets and techniques of an age-old art form.

This unique experience amounted to a true adventure story, spawning a fascinating body of work that combines east Asian inspiration with contemporary art, as illustrated in her extraordinary art book L'unique trait de pinceau (Albin Michel). The present book, autobiographical travel journal, is an enlarged English edition of the original published by Albin Michel: several colour photographs have been added to the already richly illustrated volume, together with a full index and glossary.

Accompanies an exhibition at Waddington Custot, London, from October to November, 2024.

AUTHOR: Fabienne Verdier is a painter. She has published several books with 5 Continents Editions in recent years, including ECHO. Fabienne Verdier. Carnets d'atelier (2017-2022); Fabienne Verdier, sur les terres de Cézanne; Fabienne Verdier. The Song of StarsLe chant des étoiles and Fabienne Verdier. Rainbow Paintings, by Corinna Thierolf. Her artistic development has been enriched through contact with systems of thought from different cultures and countries.

128 colour images

By: Fabienne Verdier
Imprint: Five Continents Editions
Country of Publication: Italy
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1.028kg
ISBN: 9791254600634
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 01 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

7 Passenger of Silence Fabienne Verdier 290 Transposing and Inventing Afterword, by Corinna Thierolf APPENDIX 324 Concepts of Chinese Aesthetics 343 Index and Glossary 361 Acknowledgments

Throughout her career as a painter, Fabienne Verdier has engaged with schools of thought and science from different cultures and eras. Her various areas of research have been the subject of several fascinating books published by 5 Continents Editions has published in recent years, including ECHO, Fabienne Verdier; Carnets d’atelier (2017-2022), Fabienne Verdier; Sur les terres de Cézanne, Fabienne Verdier; Le chant des étoiles; and Fabienne Verdier: Rainbow Paintings (by Corinna Thierolf).