THE ARTS OF THE DAO, Daoism and the Mind of China DECEMBER 6, 2016

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Daoism and the Mind of China 1 November – 13 December, 2016 David J. Keegan

REVIEW A Daoist won’t govern Reject benevolence and virtue; be a sage Good rulers are a disaster The Wheelwright, butcher, and carpenter have a knack for the dao Advising rulers is risky Don’t improve the Hundun to death

The Classic of the Way & Its Power Way 道 dao The Zhuangzi

way 道 dao carried by breath氣 qi

Way 道 dao carried by Breath 氣 qi embodied as Virtue 德 de

naturally 自然 ziran good Way 道 dao of politics allows Virtue 德 de to flourish So that people are naturally 自然 ziran good

THE ARTS OF THE DAO DECEMBER 6, 2016

PREVIEW Mawangdui banner guides Lady Dai The Three Purities paintings teach beliefs Daoist pastorals by Li Bai & Tao Qian Two Daoist Landscapes – “Cloudy Mountains” & “Twin Pines” Calligraphy captures the sinews of the Dao The Story of the Stone, a Daoist Romance

DAOIST ART & LITERATURE Funeral Temple Landscape & calligraphy A Daoist Romance

FUNERAL POETRY & ART CALLING THE DEAD HOME “THE GREAT SUMMONS” MAWANGDUI TOMB

Lady Dai’s storybook Banner http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/china/hunan/pm02.html

Lady Dai’s Banner – Underworld http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/china/hunan/pm02.html

Lady Dai’s Banner – Natural Human world

Lady Dai’s Banner – Her Departure

Lady Dai’s Banner – Afterlife

The Three Purities http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln472/Purities.htm

DAOISM & NATURE LANDSCAPES & POETRY

Li Bai You ask me why I dwell in mountains green? I laugh and don’t reply; my heart feels just at peace. Peach blossoms with the stream float far away . . . This is another world, not that of men.

Cloudy Mountains 1/ http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1973.121.4/

Cloudy Mountains 2/ http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1973.121.4/

Wang Wei, “Deer Fence” Empty Hills, no one in sight, only the sound of someone talking; late sunlight enters the deep wood, shining over the green moss again. Trsl Burton Watson, 19 Ways, p. 24

Twin Pines, Level Distance 1/ By Zhao Mengfu

Twin Pines, Level Distance 2/

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4/ Twin Pines, Level Distance Artist: Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254–1322) Period: Yuan dynasty (1271–1368) Date: ca. 1310 Culture: China Medium: Handscroll; ink on paper Dimensions: Image: 10 9/16 x 42 5/16 in. (26.8 x 107.5 cm) Overall with mounting: 10 15/16 x 25 ft. 7 11/16 in. (27.8 x 781.5 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of The Dillon Fund, 1973 Accession Number: 1973.120.5

Tao Qian, “Returning to the Fields” When I was young, I was out of tune with the herd: My only love was for the hills and mountains. Unwitting I fell into the Web of the World’s dust And was not free until my thirtieth year. . .

“Returning to the Fields” (end) At gate and courtyard – no murmur of the World’s dust: In the empty rooms – leisure and deep stillness. Long I lived checked by the bars of a cage: Now I have turned again to Nature and Freedom.

After War & Peace or Gone with the Wind read:

REVIEW A Daoist, like a turtle, won’t govern Reject benevolence and virtue Good rulers are a disaster The Wheelwright, butcher, and carpenter have a knack for the dao Advising rulers is risky Don’t improve the Hundun to death

Dao with a small “d” (mostly modern) NEXT CLASS: Dao with a small “d” (mostly modern) (December 13)

謝謝! Thank you! Xiexie! Ju Ming “Tai-ji” http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/2913-important-ju-ming-and-harry-bertoia-sculptures-offered-at-clarke Thank you! Xiexie!

Resources Michael Loewe, Ways to Paradise, The Chinese Quest for Immortality (London: George Allen Unwin, 1979) (on Mawangdui banner) , Maxwell Hearn, How to Read Chinese Paintings (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008) Eliot Weinberger & Octavio Paz, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (Kingston Rhode Island: Asphodel Press, 1987) (new expanded edition just published) Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone, translated by David Hawkes and John Minford, 5 vol. (Penguin, 1973-1986)

Readings on the Arts of the Dao Tao Qian Poems from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems translated by Arthur Waley (Alfred A. Knopf, 1919) Augustin, Birgitta. “Daoism and Daoist Art.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/daoi/hd_daoi.htm (December 2011) Mawangdui Tomb archaeology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawangdui (See also Heilbrunn articles on line on calligraphy and nature in Chinese painting.)