Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting
Metropolitan Museum of Art | 1999 | ISBN: 0870999281 | English | PDF | 317 pages | 30.23 Mb
Metropolitan Museum of Art | 1999 | ISBN: 0870999281 | English | PDF | 317 pages | 30.23 Mb
Papers Prepared for an International Symposium Organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Conjunction with the Exhibition "The Artist as Collector"; Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C. C. Wang Family Collection.
Published in conjunction with a December 1999 symposium held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and an exhibition, "The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection." Twelve contributions give dissenting opinions regarding a book recently published by The Museum titled Along the Riverbank, which seeks to attribute the painting called "Riverbank" to the 10th-century landscape master Dong Yuanan attribution that would call for the rewriting of early Chinese painting history. This volume contains 239 b&w illustrations to support the contributors' efforts to explain their opinions.
Foreword 7
Contributors 10
Chronology 11
The Case Against Riverbank: An Indictment in Fourteen Counts 13
Notes on the Recent History of Riverbank 65
Riverbank: A Recent Effort in a Long Tradition 81
On Paintings Attributed to Dong Yuan 85
A Comparative Physical Analysis of Riverbank and Two Zhang Daqian Forgeries 95
Positioning Riverbank 115
The Referee Must Have a Rule Book: Modern Rules for an Ancient Art 149
A Tall Pine and Daoist Immortal: An Examination of a Painting Attributed to Chen Hongshou 171
Du Jin's Enjoying Antiquities: A Problem in Connoisseurship 189
An Early Ming Example of Multiples: Two Versions of Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden 221
Riverbank: From Connoisseurship to Art History 259
Connoisseurship: Seeing and Believing 293
Glossary 311
Photograph Credits 317
Contributors 10
Chronology 11
The Case Against Riverbank: An Indictment in Fourteen Counts 13
Notes on the Recent History of Riverbank 65
Riverbank: A Recent Effort in a Long Tradition 81
On Paintings Attributed to Dong Yuan 85
A Comparative Physical Analysis of Riverbank and Two Zhang Daqian Forgeries 95
Positioning Riverbank 115
The Referee Must Have a Rule Book: Modern Rules for an Ancient Art 149
A Tall Pine and Daoist Immortal: An Examination of a Painting Attributed to Chen Hongshou 171
Du Jin's Enjoying Antiquities: A Problem in Connoisseurship 189
An Early Ming Example of Multiples: Two Versions of Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden 221
Riverbank: From Connoisseurship to Art History 259
Connoisseurship: Seeing and Believing 293
Glossary 311
Photograph Credits 317
Richard M. Barnhart is John M. Schiff Professor of the History of Art, Yale University.
James Cahill is Professor Emeritus, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley.
Wen C. Fong is Consultative Chairman and Douglas Dillon Curator of Chinese Painting, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Professor Emeritus, Princeton University.
Robert E. Harrist, Jr. is Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University.
Maxwell K. Hearn is Curator, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Hironobu Kohara is Professor Emeritus, Nara University.
Sherman Lee is Director (retired), The Cleveland Museum of Art; Adjunct Professor (retired), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Stephen Little is Pritzker Curator of Asian Art, The Art Institute of Chicago.
Qi Gong is Professor, Beijing Normal University.
Shih Shou-chien is Professor, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University; Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Jerome Silbergeld is Professor of Art History, University of Washington.
Wan-go Weng is an independent scholar.
James Cahill is Professor Emeritus, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley.
Wen C. Fong is Consultative Chairman and Douglas Dillon Curator of Chinese Painting, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Professor Emeritus, Princeton University.
Robert E. Harrist, Jr. is Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University.
Maxwell K. Hearn is Curator, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Hironobu Kohara is Professor Emeritus, Nara University.
Sherman Lee is Director (retired), The Cleveland Museum of Art; Adjunct Professor (retired), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Stephen Little is Pritzker Curator of Asian Art, The Art Institute of Chicago.
Qi Gong is Professor, Beijing Normal University.
Shih Shou-chien is Professor, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan University; Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Jerome Silbergeld is Professor of Art History, University of Washington.
Wan-go Weng is an independent scholar.