The Past in the Present: Script and Archaism in Modern Chinese Art
(from 6th Oct 2010 until 27th Feb 2011)Explore the influence of early Chinese writing and artefacts on the art of the twentieth century and beyond.
I Know
- loan
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Description
The collage includes fragments of both bronze script and clerical script.
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Details
- Associated place
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Europe › United Kingdom › England › Greater London › London (place of creation)
- Date
- 1999
- Artist/maker
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Qu Leilei (born 1951) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on Chinese paper
- Dimensions
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frame 59.8 x 55.7 x 3 cm (height x width x depth)
collage 38.7 x 33.8 cm (height x width)
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- Technique index
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
- Accession no.
- LI1109.4
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Further reading
Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 108 on p. 124, illus. p. 125
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
The Past in the Present: Script and Archaism in Modern Chinese Art
(from 6th Oct 2010 until 27th Feb 2011)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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