Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies is widely considered one of the most important early Chinese scroll paintings in existence. Inspired by a text from the third century A.D. that warns against the dangers of personal ambitions and the abuse of power, the scroll upholds Confucian standards of honorable behavior. Central to these ...
Emperor Ch'ien-lung, who ruled China from 1736 to 1795, amassed an extensive collection of Chinese art which today forms the core of the holdings of the National Palace Museum, Taipei. Drawing on this rich resource, this work provides a history of imperial Chinese art and culture from the Neolithic period to 18th century. It reproduces some of the ...
Chinese calligraphy, with its artistic as well as utilitarian values, has been treasured for its formal beauty for more than three millennia. This lavishly illustrated book brings to English language readers for the first time a full account of calligraphy in China, including its history, theory, and importance in Chinese culture. Representing an ...
The Embodied image new perspectives on the beauty, offers power, and art of the written word in China. Containing many never-before-published masterpieces from the third century to the modern period, all from the premier John B. Elliott Collection, this volume accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition of Chinese calligraphy ever seen outside ...
This book presents a survey of Chinese painting from the eighth to the 14th century, a period during which the nature of China's pictorial art changed dramatically. Illustrated by works in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the author begins by describing the advent toward the end of the Bronze Age of figural ...
Tao-chi, the 17th century poet, painter and scholar, was born into a branch of the imperial family at the very close of the Ming Dynasty in China. When Tao-chi was three years old, his father attempted to seize the royal throne. The attempt having failed, the father was executed and Tao-chi was rescued by a member of the household who fled with ...
A compilation of twelve major works from the great private collections of Chinese old master paintings, ranging from the tenth to the early eighteenth century.
During a crucial period from the 1860s to about 1980, Chinese painting was transformed into a modern expression of its classical heritage. This book draws on a selection of modern Chinese paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to explore this period, discussing issues of modernity and ...
Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late seventeenth-century China, played a key role both in reinvigorating past traditions of landscape painting and in establishing the stylistic foundations for the imperially sponsored art of the Qing court. An artist of protean talent and immense ambition, Wang developed an all-embracing synthesis of ...
One of the most important landscape hanging scrolls in the history of Chinese art--THE RIVER BANK, attributed to the 10th-century painter Dong Yuan--is among the highlights of this volume, which explores the C. C. Wang Family Collection, one of the finest collections of Chinese old masters in private hands.
This volume contains 12 papers on the occasion of the international symposium "Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting" held on December 11, 1999, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale
Date Published: 1992
Description: Very good copy. Clean and unmarked inside. Dust jacket in very good condition. A nice copy. Cloth, 32 cm., 547 pp., with color and black and white plates. Includes bibliography and glossary-index. read more
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