《Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei》是美國大都會博物館 Metropolitan Museum of Art出版的圖書，作者是方聞 Wen C. Fong，屈志仁 James C. Y. Watt
基本介紹
- 中文名：Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei
- 作者：方聞 、屈志仁
- 出版社：美國大都會博物館 Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 出版時間：1997年
- 頁數：664 頁
- 定價：49.95 美元
- 裝幀：Hardcover
- ISBN：9780300086546
- 原作品：美國大都會博物館台北故宮博物院中國國寶展展覽圖錄
內容簡介
Only two major exhibitions from the fabled Chinese Palace Museum collections have been seen in the West - the first in London in 1935-36 and the second in the United States in 1961-62. These two exhibitions provided an extraordinary stimulus to the study of Chinese culture, revolutionized Asian art studies in the West, and opened the eyes of the public to the artistic tradition...(展開全部) Only two major exhibitions from the fabled Chinese Palace Museum collections have been seen in the West - the first in London in 1935-36 and the second in the United States in 1961-62. These two exhibitions provided an extraordinary stimulus to the study of Chinese culture, revolutionized Asian art studies in the West, and opened the eyes of the public to the artistic traditions of Chinese civilization. Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei is the publication that accompanies the third great exhibition of Chinese masterworks to travel to the West. Written by scholars of both Chinese and Western cultural backgrounds and conceived as a cultural history, the book tells the story of Chinese art from its foundations in the Bronze Age and the first empires through the rich diversity of art produced during the Sung, Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, contrasting China's absolutist political structure with the humanism of its artistic and moral philosophy. Synthesizing scholarship of the past three decades, the authors present not only the historical and cultural significance of individual works of art and analyses of their aesthetic content, but a reevaluation of the cultural dynamics of Chinese history, reflecting a fundamental shift in the study of Chinese art from a focus on documentation and connoisseurship to an emphasis on the cultural significance of the visual arts. National treasures passed down from dynasty to dynasty, the works of art that now form the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, originally constituted
