Author: Fong, Wen
Title: Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th-14th Century
Description: New York, Metropolian Museum of Art, 1992. Hardcover. A red fabric casebound book with the title in gilt lettering down the spine. There is a plate glued to a debossed frame on the front cover. The free and pasted end pages are a muted gold on heavy, textured paper. Pages: (10), xi-xix, (3), 3-549. Profusely illustrated with both color and black-and-white images. "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." Contents are as follows: 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. VG: Exlibrary book with a sticker at the base of the spine. Stamps on the top and bottom text block. Stamp on the front and back pasted end page. Sticker on the back pasted end pages. Some neatly redacted numbers on the free end page.

Keywords: Asian Art ; Painting and Calligraphy ; ; General Art - Asian


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