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This richly illustrated book provides an anthology and summation of the work of one of the world's leading historians of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Wen Fong helped create the field of East Asian art history during a distinguished five-decade career at Princeton University and The Metropo...
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P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University,
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| Publisher Address: |
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton, New Jersey : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This richly illustrated book provides an anthology and summation of the work of one of the world's leading historians of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Wen Fong helped create the field of East Asian art history during a distinguished five-decade career at Princeton University and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Few if any writers in English have such a broad knowledge of the history and practice of Chinese painting and calligraphy. In this collection of some of his most recent essays, Fong gives a sweeping tour through the history of Chinese painting and calligraphy as he offers new and revised views on a broad range of important subjects. The topics addressed include "art as history," in which each object preserves a moment in art's own significant history; the museum as a place of serious study and education; the close historical relationship between calligraphy and painting and their primary among Chinese fine arts; the parallel development of representational painting and sculpture in early painting history; the greater significance of brushwork, seen abstractly as a means of personal expression by the artist, in later painting history; the paradigmatic importance of the master-to-follower lineage in shaping the continuity and directing the subtle changes in Chinese painting history; and the critical necessity of authenticated works for establishing an accurate art history. Throughout the book, Fong skillfully combines close analysis and detailed contextualization of individual works to reveal how the study of Chinese painting and calligraphy yields deep insights into Chinese culture and history. -- from dust jacket. |
| Item Description: | P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press -- Title page. |
| Carrier Form: | xxiv, 479 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-450) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691162492 : 0691162492 |
| Index Number: | N7340 |
| CLC: | J212.05 |
| Call Number: | J212.05/F674-1 |
| Contents: | Calligraphy and painting as one -- Gu Kaizhi's Admonitions scroll -- The Han-Tang miracle at Dunhuang -- Two Dong Yuans: dual paradigms of naturalism and calligraphic expression -- Sacred and humanistic: Five hundred Luohans at Daitokuji -- Deconstructing founding paradigms: landscape painting after mastering representation -- Wang Hui's great synthesis and Shitao's no-method -- Art and history: Zhang Daqian, in and out of the twentieth century. |