| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 549 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Princeton monographs in art and archaeology ; 48
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Princeton monographs in art and archaeology ; 48.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-514) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Of the Human World: Narrative Representation -- 2. Of Nature and Art: Monumental Landscape -- 3. The Art of the Scholar-Officials -- 4. Sung Imperial Art -- 5. Introspection and Lyricism: Southern Sung Painting -- 6. Some Buddhist and Taoist Themes -- 7. The Yuan Renaissance -- 8. Revival and Synthesis: Yuan Literati Painting. |
| Summary |
Beyond Representation surveys Chinese painting and calligraphy from the eighth to the fourteenth century, a period during which Chinese society and artistic expression underwent profound changes. A fourteenth-century Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368) literati landscape painting presents a world that is totally different from that portrayed in the monumental landscape images of the early Sung dynasty (960 - 1279). To chronicle and explain the evolution from formal representation to self-expression is the purpose of this book. Wen C. Fong, one of the world's most eminent scholars of Chinese art, takes the reader through this evolution, drawing on the outstanding collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Focusing on 118 works, each illustrated in full color, the book significantly augments the standard canon of images used to describe the period, enhancing our sense of the richness and complexity of artistic expression during this six-hundred-year era. |
| Local Note |
Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library Digital Collections Fulltext Titles (Customizable) |
| Subject |
Painting, Chinese -- Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960.
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Painting, Chinese -- Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368.
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Calligraphy, Chinese -- History -- Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960.
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Calligraphy, Chinese -- History -- Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368.
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| Chronological Term |
618-1368 |
| Indexed Term |
Paintings |
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Calligraphy |
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China |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fong, Wen. Beyond representation : Chinese painting and calligraphy, 8th-14th century. (OCoLC)25201113 |
| ISBN |
0870995436 (print) |
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0300057016 (print) |
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9780300057010 (print) |
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0870996436 (print) |
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9780870996436 (print) |
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