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Beyond representation : Chinese painting and calligraphy, 8th-14th century

1992

Format:	Book
Author:	Fong, Wen, author.
Title:	Beyond representation : Chinese painting and calligraphy, 8th-14th century / Wen C. Fong.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [1992] ©1992
Description:	xix, 549 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm.
Summary:	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.
Series:	Princeton monographs in art and archaeology ; 48 Princeton monographs in art and archaeology ; 48.
Subjects:	Painting, Chinese -- Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960. Painting, Chinese -- Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368. Calligraphy, Chinese -- History -- Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960. Calligraphy, Chinese -- History -- Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368.
Other Author:	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-514) and index.
Contents:	Of the human world: narrative representation -- Of nature and art: monumental landscape -- The art of the scholar-officials -- Sung Imperial art -- Introspection and lyricism: Southern Sung painting -- 6. Some Buddhist and Taoist themes -- The Yuan Renaissance -- Revival and synthesis: Yuan literati painting.
Web Site:	Table of contents
LCCN:	92001089
ISBN:	* 0870995436 0300057016 9780300057010 9780870996436
Other Number:	25201113
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Control Number:	16208
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Call Number:	759.951 Fong

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