A Interventional Study of the Carving Art of the Hitching Post Head in Modern Sculpture
Abstract
Chinese folk art is the embodiment of folkways in China. With the further deepening of people’s ideology, the academic study of folk culture gradually gets away from the previous concept in recent decades, while folk culture has been included in the academic discussion and studied by scholars in depth. The hitching post art carving on the north of Wei River Basin is a representative of folk art. Through in-depth digging and organizing of a large number of documentary materials and historical relics, the hitching post head carving art has become one of the northern folk carving art forms that cannot be ignored in the history of ancient Chinese sculpture. From the study of the artistic expression form of the hitching post head, we see the charm of such folk art form, of which academic value does not only stay in the digging of cultural relics and history, but also has a profound influence on the modern folk carving art.References
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