Words and Images contains twenty-three essays based on papers presented at an international symposium held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 1985 to celebrate the gifts and promised gifts of Chinese calligraphy and painting from John M. Crawford, Jr. In these essays senior scholars from Asia and America express a wide range of perspectives on an issue that is central to ...(展开全部)

Words and Images contains twenty-three essays based on papers presented at an international symposium held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 1985 to celebrate the gifts and promised gifts of Chinese calligraphy and painting from John M. Crawford, Jr. In these essays senior scholars from Asia and America express a wide range of perspectives on an issue that is central to ...(展开全部)

What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them d...(展开全部)

What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them d...(展开全部)

In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard analyzes images of women in painting and poetry of China’s middle imperial period, focusing on works that represent female figures as preoccupied with romance. She discusses examples of visual and literary culture in regard to their authorship and audience, examining the role of interiority in constructions of gender...(展开全部)

This book presents a survey of Chinese painting from the eighth to the 14th century, a period during which the nature of China's pictorial art changed dramatically. Illustrated by works in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the author begins by describing the advent toward the end of the Bronze Age of figural representation in Chinese art, and next trac...(展开全部)

裱褙，古代又稱作「裝池」，是中國用來美化和保護書畫的一項專門技藝。早在紀元前三世紀的戰國時代，即已略具卷軸形式的雛型，但裝池技術真正發展純熟，則必須晚至唐朝以後。北宋晚期，宮廷裡甚至設置專司裱褙的機構，並訂定書畫裝裱規格，影響所及，到明、清兩代，猶持續被沿用。本「書畫裝池之美」圖錄的設計，圖版均以全幅形式來印刷，有別於只印畫心的編排方式。陳述重點，亦聚焦於解析手卷、立軸、冊頁、成扇等不同裝池形式的特色。書末附錄，並羅列裝裱書畫常用的工具與材料，用供參考。 The mounting, or backing, not only preserves a work of painting or calligraphy, it can also enhance its beauty. As early as the third century BCE, du...(展开全部)