意大利畫家查農的中國古畫收藏及其在華的展覽與創作活動（1928-37年）

Abstract

Carlo Zanon (1889-?) was an Italian painter and collector of guhua (ancient Chinese painting), who played an intriguing role in the art circles of Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo during the so-called floating Avant-garde movement in East Asia. Born in Schio, in the Veneto region, Zanon frequently stayed in Paris, but today he is not well known either in Italy or in France. However, his involvement in modern Chinese art was rather extraordinary. From 1928 to 1937, the art he exhibited and created in Shanghai caught the attention of the mass media in that city and elsewhere. Interestingly, Zanon's approach to modernism did not follow the examples of the avant-garde artists of Paris, but instead he painstakingly sought to develop a new painting style through collecting and studying guhua as well as Japanese ukiyo-e. Zanon's artistic approach exemplifies an alternative modernity embodied in the transformation of traditional Chinese art. Its effect on the development of Chinese painting was significant, helping to consolidate the self-confidence of guohua (national style painting) artists such as Huang Binhong (1865-1955). This paper will address the issue of modernity in East Asia by retrieving records of Zanon's exhibition and art creation in the 1920s and 30s in order to define the intriguing connection between the collecting of guhua in Europe and avant-garde movements in China.