Definitions
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- noun A traditional
Asian scroll that unfoldshorizontally so that the reader can view one section at a time while holding it in the hands.
Etymologies
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Examples
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American-born and -bred Arnold Chang selected an American work, Jackson Pollock's "Number 10," insisting that it be displayed flat like a handscroll.
How to Talk Back to a Chinese Master Lee Lawrence 2011
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The film “is influenced by Surrealism and Art Nouveau both visually and thematically, and the horizontal camera movement is used to simulate Chinese painting handscroll format emakimono.”
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He is depicted by the painter Qian Xuan, another connoisseur of reclusion, in a 13th-century handscroll at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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A set of 12 gold-leafed screen panels and an early 18th-century handscroll both depict troupes of Kabuki performers parading, preparing and performing.
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He is depicted by the painter Qian Xuan, another connoisseur of reclusion, in a 13th-century handscroll at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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One of the dragons from The Nine Dragons handscroll , painted by the Song Dynasty Chinese artist Chen Rong in the year 1244.
The comic grotesque in the West and the East « Jahsonic 2007
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One of the dragons from The Nine Dragons handscroll , painted by the Song Dynasty Chinese artist Chen Rong in the year 1244.
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There are no smoking ruins among the bamboo groves in a 17th-century handscroll painting, no anguished cries emerging from columns of calligraphic script.
NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2011
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The painter of the bamboo handscroll, Gui Changshi, gave himself over to inconsolable regret at his early diffidence toward imperial service, and he wasted away.
NYT > Home Page By HOLLAND COTTER 2011
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There are no smoking ruins among the bamboo groves in a 17th-century handscroll painting, no anguished cries emerging from columns of calligraphic script.
NYT > Home Page 2011
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