Words and images Chinese poetry, calligraphy, and painting edited by Alfreda Murck and Wen C. Fong

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murck, Alfreda

Fong, Wen

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Calligraphy, Chinese--Congresses.

Calligraphy, Chinese.

Painting, Chinese--Congresses.

Painting, Chinese.

Chinese poetry--History and criticism--Congresses.

Chinese poetry.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 589 pages illustrations)

Place of Publication:

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art ; [1991]

Princeton Princeton University Press [1991]

Summary:

In May of 1985, an international symposium was held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in honor of John M. Crawford, Jr., whose gifts of Chinese calligraphy and painting have constituted a significant addition to the Museum's holdings. Over a three-day period, senior scholars from China, Japan, Taiwan, Europe, and the United States expressed a wide range of perspectives on an issue central to the history of Chinese visual aesthetics: the relationships between poetry, calligraphy, and painting. The practice of integrating the three art forms-known as san-chiieh, or the three perfections-in one work of art emerged during the Sung and Yuan dynasties largely in the context of literati culture, and it has stimulated lively critical discussion ever since. This publication contains twenty-three essays based on the papers presented at the Crawford symposium. Grouped by subject matter in a roughly chronological order, these essays reflect research on topics spanning two millennia of Chinese history. The result is an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex set of relationships between words and images by art historians, literary historians, and scholars of calligraphy. Their findings provide us with a new level of understanding of this rich and complicated subject and suggest further directions for the study of Chinese art history. The essays are accompanied by 255 illustrations, some of which reproduce works rarely published. Chinese characters have been provided throughout the text for artists names, terms, titles of works of art and literature, and important historical figures, as well as for excerpts of selected poetry and prose. A chronology, also containing Chinese characters, and an extensive index contribute to making this book illuminating and invaluable to both the specialist and the layman

Notes:

Papers presented at an international symposium held May 1985 at the Metropolitan Museum

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Metropolitan Museum of Art. Words and images.

ISBN:

0870996045

9780870996047

OCLC:

883657111