Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 610-624) and index.
Table of Contents
The National Palace Museum : a history of the collection / Chang Lin-sheng -- Chinese art and cross-cultural understanding / Wen C. Fong -- Jade ; The Bronze Age and the first empires / James C.Y. Watt -- The imperial cult ; Some cultural prototypes ; Monumental landscape painting ; Sung imperial protraits ; The scholar-official as artist / Wen C. Fong -- The Imperial Painting Academy / James Cahill -- Some Buddhist images / Wai-kam Ho and Wen C. Fong -- Antiquarianism and naturalism / James C.Y. Watt -- The orthodox lineage of Tao / Wen C. Fong -- Imperial portraits of the Yèuan Court / Wen C. Fong and Maxwell K. Hearn -- Reunification and revival ; The artist as hero / Maxwell K. Hearn -- Imperial portraiture of the Ming Dynasty / Wen C. Fong -- The return of the academy / Richard M. Barnhart -- The literati artists of the Ming dynasty ; The expanding literati culture ; Creating a synthesis / Wen C. Fong -- Official art and commercial art / James C.Y. Watt -- The orthodox school of painting ; The individualist masters / Wen C. Fong -- The antique-elegant / James C.Y. Watt -- Imperial patronage of the arts under the Ch'ing / Wen C. Fong.