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Chin-Sung Chang (Contributor), Wen C. Fong (Contributor), Maxwel, L K. Hearn (Contributor, Editor)

Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717) (Metropolitan Museum of Art) (Hardcover)

Metropolitan 2008,

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Author

Chin-Sung Chang (Contributor), Wen C. Fong (Contributor), Maxwel, L K. Hearn (Contributor, Editor)

Publishers

Metropolitan 2008

Keyword

China Art

Cover description

As New

Binding description

Dust jacket

Yes

State of preservation

As New

Binding

Hardcover

Inscribed

First edition

Description

4to, pp. 248 Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late-17th-century China, played a key role both in reinvigorating past traditions of landscape painting and in establishing the stylistic foundations for the imperially sponsored art of the Qing court. An artist of protean talent and immense ambition, Wang developed an all-embracing synthesis of historical landscape styles that constituted one of the greatest artistic innovations of late imperial China. This comprehensive study of the painters careerthe first published in Englishfeatures essays examining his life and achievement as well as his masterwork, the monumental scroll depicting the Kangxi emperors Southern Inspection Tour. Twenty-seven of Wang Huis paintings, drawn from the Metropolitan Museum and from museums in Beijing, Taipei, Shanghai, and Tokyo, are supplemented by a wealth of images ranging from ancient Chinese paintings to works by Wangs contemporaries.