| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : illustrations (some color), map |
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text file |
| Contents |
Map of China -- Introduction: East Meets West -- 1. Painters in Shanghai and Guangdong -- 2. Westernizers -- 3. Three Great Traditionalists -- 4. Mainland Chinese Painting, 1950s-1980s -- Epilogue: Reflections on Chinese Art and History. |
| Summary |
"Between Two Cultures, by Wen C. Fong, based on a selection of modern Chinese paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores the crucial period from the 1860s to about 1980, when Chinese painting was transformed into a modern expression of its classical heritage. Unlike classical Chinese painting dating from before 1860, which has commanded in-depth study from a learned and sophisticated audience in the West, modern Chinese painting has been little explored. The first comprehensive assemblage in the West of paintings on this subject, the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection comprises works in the classical Chinese medium of ink on paper and in the traditional formats of scrolls, album leaves, and fans."--Jacket. |
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Based on modern Chinese paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection at the Metropolitan, this book explores the period from the 1860s to about 1980, when Chinese painting was transformed into a modern expression of its classical heritage, and deals with both traditionalist and modernizing Chinese masters from the comparative perspectives of East and West. Dr. Fong begins his exploration with the last revival of traditional Chinese art and the rise of a populist art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Shanghai. His discussion continues with painters who absorbed the lessons of Western realism, which they viewed as part of Western science and technology. The work of traditionalist masters is also analyzed, followed by a discussion of painting by the second generation of artists and teachers, who developed their own schools of influence in their search for a new synthesis of Chinese and Western methods. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website. |
| Note |
Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Chinese paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jan.30 - Aug.19, 2001. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Biography |
Wen C. Fong is Douglas Dillon Curator Emeritus of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. |
| Note |
Exhibition title: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Chinese paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
| Local Note |
Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library Digital Collections Fulltext Titles (Customizable) |
| Subject |
Ellsworth, Robert Hatfield, 1929-2014 -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
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Ellsworth, Robert Hatfield, 1929-2014. |
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Art museums. |
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Painting, Chinese -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Painting, Chinese. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Painting, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912 -- Exhibitions.
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| Chronological Term |
1368-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| ISBN |
0870999842 (hc.) |
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9780870999840 (hc.) |
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0870999850 (paperback) |
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9780870999857 (paperback) |
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0300088507 (Yale University Press) |
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9780300088502 (Yale University Press) |
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