Beyond triviality barriers: the transcendent poetics of play in Feng Zikai’s manhua legacy

Abstract Despite the socio-political upheavals that marked twentieth-century China, Feng Zikai (豐子愷,1898–1975), a Chinese artist and writer, invariably figures his art forms with child subjects in ways that encapsulate a childhood idyll reminiscent of the ancient genre of painting children at play....

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Main Author: Chengcheng You
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2023-12-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02480-6