香港印象 Hong Kong Impressions | Edited by Pedith Pui Chan, Josh Yiu| Published by Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

文化傳統塑造景觀的感知，山水的品味，以及賦予特定名勝歷史和文化意涵與價值。

「香港印象」展出以香港實景為主題的藝術作品，為我們了解山水美學、現代旅遊與香港風景的視覺呈現之間的種種複雜關係提供一個切入點。

展覽包括的藝術家都是曾經遊覽香港不同地方的風景旅客，以繪畫呈現旅遊經歷和對香港勝景的觀感。

戰後，以香港風景為主題的實景山水畫蔚然成風，揭示了藝術家對戶外寫生的興趣與日俱增，以及與現代旅遊在香港急速發展之間的密切關聯。

香港由「沒有甚麼可以做」的地方演變為著名旅遊勝地，其旅遊發展表明了個別意識形態與景觀論述如何隨着時間推移滲入旅遊論述中。

事實上，戰前香港的旅遊名勝均以東方主義的角度挑選和建構出來，旨在強調英國政府把香港從「荒山野嶺」發展成「東方之珠」過程中的貢獻，同時將香港設計成既現代又傳統、既西化又中式的城市。

然而，抗戰和內戰之後，中國文化菁英南來並參與建構香港旅遊論述，為觀看香港風景的方式添上家國情懷，開拓香港的風景名勝，也將焦點由集中於香港本島的景點轉移到新界。

因此，中國山水美學的注入發展出欣賞香港的特有山水感知。

過程中某些景點尤受青睞，成為香港的象徵符號，繼而成為實景山水的常見題材。

由挑選風景名勝和藝術風格，到勝景的觀賞角度和名勝的描繪，是次展覽的畫作提供另一角度讓我們理解藝術家如何思考和想像香港，並透過藝術家的角度引領我們以新的方式欣賞和體驗香港山水。

作者簡介：

Prof. Pedith Chan

is a senior lecturer in Asian arts and cultures at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She received her PhD in Art and Archaeology from SOAS, University of London. Before joining SOAS Chan was an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on the production and consumption of art and cultural heritage in modern and contemporary China. Recent publications include

The Making of a Modern Art World: Institutionalisation and Legitimisation of Guohua in Republican Shanghai

(Leiden: Brill, 2017), “Learning from Nature: Modern Tourism and Site-Specific Landscape Painting” (National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2020), and “In Search of the Southeast: Tourism, Nationalism, Scenic Landscape in Republican China,” (Twentieth-Century China, 2018). She is currently researching the making of scenic sites in modern China.

Prof. Josh Yiu

is the Director of the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his B.A. in Art History from the University of Chicago, and completed his doctorate at Oxford University. From 2006 to 2013, he served as the Foster Foundation Curator of Chinese Art at the Seattle Art Museum. At CUHK, he has supervised over thirty special exhibitions, acquired over 400 artworks, digitized the collection, launched online education programs, and initiated the museum expansion project. A scholar in late imperial and modern Chinese art with over twenty publications in books and articles, he also serves as an advisor to the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and international consultant to the National Art Museum of China.

Editors： Pedith Chan, Josh Yiu
Published ： Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
ISBN：978-988-19493-3-2
Binding： Paperback
Language：English, Traditional Chinese
Page： 200