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Eighteen songs of a nomad flute: the story of Lady Wen-chi : a fourteenth-century handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title
Eighteen songs of a nomad flute: the story of Lady Wen-chi : a fourteenth-century handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / introduction, commentary, and translation of poems by Robert A. Rorex and Wen Fong.
Publication
  • [New York] : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [1974]
  • [Greenwich, Connecticut] : Distributed by New York Graphic Society
  • ©1974

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Additional Authors
  • Rorex, Robert A.
  • Fong, Wen
  • Liu, Shang, active 8th century.
  • Wilhelm Collection (East Asian Library and the Gest Collection) NjP
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Description
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color); 26 x 28 cm
Summary
"Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute are a series of Chinese songs and poems about the life of Han Dynasty poet Cai Wenji, the songs were composed by Liu Shang, a poet of the middle Tang Dynasty. Later Emperor Gaozong of Song commissioned a handscroll with the songs accompanied by 18 painted scenes"--Wikipedia.
Alternative Title
  • 18 songs of a nomad flute
  • Story of Lady Wen-chi : a fourteenth-century handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Subject
  • Liu, Shang, active 8th century. > Illustrations
  • Cai, Wenji, approximately 177-approximately 239 > Art
  • Cai, Wenji, approximately 177-approximately 239
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • 960-1368
  • Painting, Chinese > Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368
  • Scrolls, Chinese > Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368
  • Narrative painting, Chinese > Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368
  • Painting, Chinese > Song-Yuan dynasties
  • Scrolls, Chinese > Song-Yuan dynasties
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Pictorial Work
  • illustrated books.
  • Art
  • Illustrated works
  • Illustrated works.
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Note
  • The text of the poems on the scroll reproduced here is by Liu Shang; the paintings are by an unknown artist.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
  • 0870990950
  • 9780870990953
LCCN
74011140
OCLC
  • ocm00948071
  • 948071
  • SCSB-227618
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library