This handsome volume offers a fresh, comprehensive look at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s world-renowned collection of Chinese paintings. With in-depth study of more than 100 selected works and more than 400 color illustrations, Silent Poetry reflects the growth, both in size and in scope, of the Cleveland Museum’s holdings of Chinese art over the past thirty years. Renowned scholars Ju Hsi Chou and Anita Chung, who have overseen the museum’s Chinese art collection for almost two decades, contribute new scholarship gleaned through investigative methods, conventional and innovative, that include the physical examination of works and digital technology as a supplement to traditional analyses of style, text, context, and artistic technique. An authoritative reference for students, scholars, and collectors, Silent Poetry presents the most up-to-date research on Cleveland's marvelous collection of paintings and encourages new directions in the study of Chinese art.

Silent Poetry: Chinese Paintings from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Arts & Photography

Chou, Ju-Hsi

History & Criticism

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Elegant Brush: Chinese Painting Under the Quianlong Emperor, 1735-1795

Phoenix Art Museum

Drawn from a Phoenix Art Museum exhibition, this lovely volume presents a broad range of paintings by late Qing dynasty artists of various schools and regions. Most of the 110 items are reproduced very nicely in black-and-white; a dozen or so are revealed in the most delicate color. In addition to the catalogue of paintings and biographical sketches of artists are five short contextual essays. Published by the Phoenix Art Museum and distributed by the U. of Arizona Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Transcending Turmoil: Painting at the Close of China's Empire, 1796-1911

Brown, Claudia

Book by Chou, Ju-Hsi, Papp, Roy, Papp, Marilyn

Scent of Ink: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting

Chrysler Museum

Papp, Roy

Papp, Marilyn

Journeys on Paper and Silk: The Roy and Marilyn Papp Collection of Chinese Painting

This volume features a comprehensive overview of the development of Chinese bronze mirrors through over 90 examples from the Carter Collection recently added to the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the Han dynasty to the 19th century, these examples encompass various production techniques, alloy compositions, and patination. Extensive technical analyses are provided together with a comprehensive essay on the making of bronze mirror: its casting techniques, clay mold technology, color and patination, and finishing work. Translation of inscriptions together with extensive inclusion of Chinese characters make this volume a valuable reference work on mirror inscriptions and terminology

Circles of Reflection : The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Cleveland Museum of Art Bookstore

"The late 19th century was a time of tremendous change and upheaval in China. The old order was falling apart and the new struggled to emerge. Shaped around a recent exhibit entitled ""Transcending Turmoil: Painting at the Close of China's Empire,"" this book explores the period with insight and fresh perspective. It includes sections such as: ""Looking at Late Qing Painting with New Eyes,"" by Chou-Tsing Li; ""Painters and Publishing in Late 19th-century Shanghai,"" by Jonathan Hay and ""Calligraphy at the Close of the Chinese Empire,"" by Lothar Ledderose."

Art at the Close of China's Empire (Phoebus Occasional Papers in Art History, Vol. 8)

Chou, Ju-His

Arizona State University

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