Art as history : calligraphy and painting as one / Wen C. Fong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fong, Wen, author.

方闻, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and history.

China.

China--Civilization.

Civilization.

Kina.

Painting, Chinese.

Calligraphy, Chinese.

Art, Chinese.

Art and history--China.

Local Subjects:

Kina.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 479 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Distribution:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [date of distribution not identified]

Other Title:

Calligraphy and painting as one

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, [2014]

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"--Jacket.

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.

Notes:

"P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-450) and index.

ISBN:

0691162492

9780691162492

OCLC:

861542618

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