Research Catalog

Title

Through an open door : selections from the Robert A. Hefner III collection of contemporary Chinese oil paintings / essays by Robert A. Hefner III and Fan Dian ; photographs by Jon Burris.

Publication

Oklahoma City, OK : Portfolio Editions, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fan, Di'an
• Hefner, Robert A., III, 1935-
• Burris, Jon
• Hefner Collection

Description

140 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.), ports.; 32 cm.

Summary

"Through An Open Door: Selections from the Robert A. Hefner III Collection of Contemporary Chinese Oil Paintings focuses on 54 works representing 32 artists from Hefners' permanent collection. Included are transitional pieces showing the development from Socialist Realism, common to Chinese oil painting from the beginning of the People's Republic through the late 1970s, to what Chinese critics have called Country Realism, prevalent in the 1980s, and on to a neoclassical style by which many of these artists have become identified over the last decade. More recent paintings, reflect an abstract as well as surrealist direction taken by the younger generation of artists." "This collection represents the energy and experimentation of the Chinese artists who took oil painting in a whole new direction during one of the most critical times in their cultural history. Through photographs, and in their own words, we come to understand more about these unique individuals and how they view their past and present in their rapidly changing society."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Selections from the Robert A. Hefner III collection of contemporary Chinese oil paintings

Subject

• Hefner, Robert A., III, 1935- > Art collections > Catalogs
• Hefner Collection > Catalogs
• 1900-1999
• Painting, Chinese > 20th century > Catalogs
• Painting, Chinese > Private collections > United States > Catalogs
• Painters > China > Biography

Genre/Form

Catalogs

Note

• Illustrated lining papers.
• "Dedicated to Steven McLain Hefner and Kevin MacKenzie Ye and their venture into the 21st Century."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Robert A. Hefner III -- The Changing Face Of China: The Hefner Collection 1985-1996 / Jon Burris -- Through An Open Door: Oil Painting In China In The 1980s / Fan Dian -- Collection.

ISBN

• 0965679403 (HC)
• 0965679411 (SC)

OCLC

• 38894378
• SCSB-10315460

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library