17Th-Century Chinese Paintings From the Tsao Family Collection

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition Alternative Dreams: 17th-Century Chinese Paintings from the Tsao Family Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (August 7 through December 4, 2016)--Colophon.
An Interview with Jung Ying Tsao -- Interplay of Image and Text : The Artists' Inscriptions on the Paintings / Ronald Egan -- "Letters and Wine, Morning, Noon, and Night!" : Literary Gatherings in Seventeenth- to Eighteenth-Century China / Jonathan Chaves -- When Is a "Chinese Landscape Painting" Also a "Chinese Buddhist Painting"? : Approaches to the Works of Kuncan (1612-1673) and Other Enigmas / Raoul Birnbaum -- A New Look at a New Look : Painting and Theory of Seventeenth- Century China / Katharine P. Burnett -- Catalogue.
"Comprising 131 paintings from the 17th century, the Tsao Family Collection is singularly comprehensive, including works by nearly all of the most important Chinese painters of the period. This book features 15 works by Dong Qichang, the most protean Chinese painter of the last 500 years; paintings by masters such as Gong Xian, Hongren, Bada shanren, Shitao, Wang Hui, and Wang Yuanqi; and extremely rare works by lesser-known artists, scholars, officials, and Buddhist monks. Divided into sections that encompass both the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, this volume also includes fascinating essays on a number of themes, such as the function of landscape in Chinese culture, the political uses of painting in 17th-century China, the relationship of Chinese painting to poetry, the flourishing of Buddhist and Daoist studies among late Ming and early Qing literati, and orthodoxy and painting of the era. Rounding out the volume are new and authoritative interpretations of the Tsao Collection written by leading scholars and remarkable new translations by Jonathan Chaves, Ronald Egan, and others, of the Chinese poems and prose texts inscribed on the paintings and calligraphic works in the exhibition."--Publisher's description.

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