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The embodied image : Chinese calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection

Title
The embodied image : Chinese calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection / Robert E. Harrist, Jr., Wen C. Fong ; with contributions by Qianshen Bai ... [et al.].
Author
Harrist, Robert E.
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Art Museum, Princeton University in association with Harry N. Abrams, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Fong, Wen.
  • Princeton University. Art Museum.
  • Seattle Art Museum.
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Description
xx, 449 p. : ill. (some col.); 32 cm.
Alternative Title
Chinese calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection
Subjects
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition: Art Museum, Princeton University, Mar. 27, 1999-June 27, 1999; Seattle Art Museum, Feb. 10-May 7, 2000; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 15, 2000-Jan. 7, 2001.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-411) and index.
Contents
Introductory essays. Reading Chinese calligraphy / Robert E. Harrist, Jr. Chinese calligraphy : theory and history / Wen C. Fong -- Catalogue -- Essays. Texts of Taoism and Buddhism and the power of calligraphic style / Amy McNair. A letter from Wang Hsi-chih and the culture of Chinese calligraphy / Robert E. Harrist, Jr. Opposite paths to originality : Huang T'ing-chien and Mi Fu / Jay Xu. The two perfections : reading poetry and calligraphy / Robert E. Harrist, Jr. A quest for the imperishable : Chao Meng-fu's calligraphy for stele inscriptions / Zhixin Sun. Ming Dynasty Soochow and the golden age of literati culture / Chuan-hsing Ho. The aesthetics of the unusual and the strange in seventeenth-century calligraphy / Dora C.Y. Ching. Calligraphic couplets as manifestations of deities and markers of buildings / Cary Y. Liu. Chinese letters : private words made public / Qianshen Bai.
Call Number
*OVG+ 99-7628
ISBN
  • 0810963779 (cloth)
  • 0943012287 (pbk)
LCCN
98088465
OCLC
41308493
Author
Harrist, Robert E.
Title
The embodied image : Chinese calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection / Robert E. Harrist, Jr., Wen C. Fong ; with contributions by Qianshen Bai ... [et al.].
Imprint
Princeton, N.J. : Art Museum, Princeton University in association with Harry N. Abrams, c1999.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-411) and index.
Added Author
Fong, Wen.
Princeton University. Art Museum.
Seattle Art Museum.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Research Call Number
*OVG+ 99-7628
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