Publication

This book is an archival research commissioned by the family of the painter Tseng Pei-yao, a research team composed of the National Cheng Kung University Taiwan Art History Research Center and Taiwan Visual Art Archive. This batch of files was collected every day during Tseng Pei-yao’ s lifetime. It took a total of more than 30 years and contains 64 volumes of “History of Tseng Pei-yao’ s Painting”. The large number of archives accumulated by Tseng Pei-yao, such as manuscripts, newspaper clippings, letters, invitations, etc., bear witness to the development of modern art in Tainan, Chiayi, Kaohsiung and other places from the 1950s to the 1980s. Among this batch of precious historical materials that are being degraded, the editor selected fifty important documents and archives for metadata description, and wrote five special articles to discuss them respectively, combined with images and chronology into this book; which not only constructs Tseng Pei-yao’ s artistic world , is also a history of life and a microcosm of the history of art movements, preserving an important page in local art history.

Designer Shu Sheng-lin｜

The inspiration for the design of the book cover came from when I was browsing the painting history of Teacher Zeng Peiyao in the early stages of the design. I was full of curiosity and imagination about the composition (sense of space) formed by Teacher Zeng when he cut out photos or text and pasted them on paper in order to organize information.
I think these interesting compositions (spaces) carry certain key images or information, just like puzzle pieces, making the study of Taiwan’s art history more complete and adequate.