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Between Two Cultures : Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Chinese. 1st ed.
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- Subject
- Art & Photography
- ISBN
- 9780300088502
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300088507
ISBN-13
9780300088502
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1838651
Product Key Features
Book Title
Between Two Cultures : A Selection of Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Number of Pages
300 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Asian / Chinese, Asian / General, Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
Publication Year
2001
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Art
Book Series
Metropolitan Museum of Art Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
72.9 Oz
Item Length
12 in
Item Width
9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-068727
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
759.951/074/7471
Synopsis
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 creativity in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Chinese painting. Wen C. Fong deals with both traditionalist and modernising Chinese masters from the comparative perspective of East and West, traditional and modern. He begins by examining the last traditional 'revival', the epigraphic school of painting, and the rise of a populist art in the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai. Next he focuses on painters who absorbed the lessons of Western realism, in particular one artist who followed the Ecole des Beaux Arts and one who adapted the model of the Japanese Nihonga painters, and on three great traditionalist masters, two of whom were professional populist painters. Finally he explores Chinese painting from about 1950 to 1980 by the second generation of artists and teachers in the national academies who, having been trained by traditionalist and
LC Classification Number
ND1045.F66 2001
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