Chinese art : modern expressions / edited by Maxwell K. Hearn and Judith G. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hearn, Maxwell K.

Smith, Judith G., 1941-

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Asian Art.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Chinese--20th century--Congresses.

Art, Chinese.

Art, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912--Congresses.

Art, Chinese--Ming-Qing dynasties.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

311 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Department of Asian Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2001]

Summary:

The essays in this volume offer a variety of perspectives on the impact of the West on indigenous literature, architecture, painting, and calligraphy during this period (ca. 1860-1980).

Contents:

In the Name of the Real / David Der-wei Wang 28

Painting and the Built Environment in Late-Nineteenth-Century Shanghai / Jonathan Hay 60

Sketch Conceptualism as Modernist Contingency / Eugene Y. Wang 102

Relocations: Spaces of Chinese Visual Modernity / Richard Vinograd 162

Li Keran and His Exhibition Paintings / Wan Qingli 182

Aesthetic Appropriation of Ancient Calligraphy in Modern China / Lothar Ledderose 212

From Wu Dacheng to Mao Zedong: The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Twentieth Century / Qianshen Bai 246

Mapping Chinese Modernity / Julia F. Andrews 284.

Notes:

"This volume is published on the occasion of the international symposium 'Chinese Art: Modern Expressions' held on May 19, 2001 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The symposium was organized in conjunction with the exhibition Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on view at the Museum from January 30 to August 19, 2001."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0870999834

OCLC:

47270137