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Art as History - Calligraphy and Painting as One (Hardcover): Wen C. Fong

Art as History - Calligraphy and Painting as One (Hardcover)

Wen C. Fong

Series: Publications of the Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University

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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 other writers in English have such a broad knowledge of the history and practice of calligraphy and Chinese painting. 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 art 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 primacy 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--of genealogy as a social force--in shaping the continuity and directing the subtle changes in Chinese painting history; the role of collectors; 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 about Chinese culture and history.

General

Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Publications of the Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University
Release date: December 2014
First published: 2015
Authors: Wen C. Fong
Dimensions: 254 x 203 x 41mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-16249-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Oriental art
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General
LSN: 0-691-16249-2
Barcode: 9780691162492

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