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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.

Detail of Peonies in a bronze vessel, China, 1903 (Museum No: EA2007.103)
Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphyfront

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  • Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy (front cover)
  • Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy (front)
  • Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy (front)
  • Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy (front)
  • Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy (front)
  • Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy (front)
  • Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy (front)
  • Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy (front)
  • Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy (front)
  • Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy (front)
  • Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy (back cover)
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Sixteen different examples of epigraphy and calligraphy

  • loan

  • Description

    Zhuang Yan was Curator of Painting at the Palace Museum, Taizhong. The calligraphy examples in this album were written for the book A Short History of Chinese Art. The pages here show clerical script (lishu) and a form of standard script (kaishu).

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (place of creation)
    Date
    1968
    Artist/maker
    Chuang Shang-Yen (1899 - 1980) (calligrapher)
    Material and technique
    ink on paper
    Dimensions
    album 38.7 x 21.5 x 2.2 cm (height x width x depth)
    page 38.7 x 21.5 cm (height x width)
    pages 26 (count)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    drawn (image) › line drawing › brush drawing,
    bound
    Object type index
    visual representation › album,
    visual representation › calligraphy
    No. of items
    5
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI1109.7

  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 1 on p. 47, illus. p. 47

Glossary

lishu

  • lishu

    Qin Dynasty clerical script.

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    • currently in research collection

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