C.C. Wang : lines of abstraction / edited by Wen-shing Chou and Daniel M. Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wang, Chi-chʻien.

Chou, Wen-shing, editor.

Greenberg, Daniel M., editor.

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, host institution.

Standardized Title:

C.C. Wang (Hirmer)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wang, Chi-chʻien--Exhibitions.

Wang, Chi-chʻien.

Physical Description:

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Lines of abstraction

Place of Publication:

München : Hirmer ; New York : Hunter College Art Galleries ; [Minneapolis] : Weisman Art Museum, University of Minesota, [2023]

Summary:

C.C. Wang (1907 - 2003) is best known as a preeminent twentieth-century connoisseur and collector of pre-modern Chinese art, a reputation that often overshadows his own art. The book recenters Wang?s extraordinary career on his own artistic practice to reveal an original quest for tradition and innovation in the global twentieth century.00Born to a family of scholar-officials at the twilight of the Qing dynasty, C.C. Wang mastered the traditional ink and brush techniques in Republican Shanghai and immigrated to New York City in 1949. There he sought to preserve the tradition of classical Chinese painting through engagement with new ideas, materials, and forms. Drawing inspiration from past masters in the history of Chinese painting, as well as New York?s artistic climate in the wake of World War II, Wang advanced breakthrough transformations in ink painting. Spanning seven decades, the book focuses on the artist?s distinctive synthesis of Chinese ink painting and American postwar abstraction.00Exhibition: The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, USA (01.02. - 30.04.2023).

Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, February 2 - April 29, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-139).

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, February 2 - April 29 2023.

ISBN:

9783777441030

3777441031

OCLC:

1380648900

Publisher Number:

9783777441030