Title: The embodied image : Chinese calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection /
Authors: Harrist, Robert E.; Fong, Wen.; Princeton University.; Seattle Art Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Art Museum, Princeton University in association with Harry N. Abrams,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Elliott, John B. Art collections Exhibitions.; Princeton University. Exhibitions.; Calligraphy, Chinese Exhibitions.; Art Private collections New Jersey Princeton Exhibitions.
Abstract: "Chinese painting, sculpture, ceramics, and other art have gradually become familiar to many Western viewers, but calligraphy, the art most valued in China, remains little known. The Embodied Image accompanies an exhibition of one of the most outstanding and comprehensive collections of Chinese calligraphy ever assembled outside Asia, the John B. Elliott Collection at The Art Museum, Princeton University.
Contents: Introductory essays. Reading Chinese calligraphy / Robert E. Harrist, Jr. Chinese calligraphy : theory and history / Wen C. Fong -- Catalogue -- Essays. Texts of Taoism and Buddhism and the power of calligraphic style / Amy McNair. A letter from Wang Hsi-chih and the culture of Chinese calligraphy / Robert E. Harrist, Jr. Opposite paths to originality : Huang T'ing-chien and Mi Fu / Jay Xu. The two perfections : reading poetry and calligraphy / Robert E. Harrist, Jr. A quest for the imperishable : Chao Meng-fu's calligraphy for stele inscriptions / Zhixin Sun. Ming Dynasty Soochow and the golden age of literati culture / Chuan-hsing Ho. The aesthetics of the unusual and the strange in seventeenth-century calligraphy / Dora C.Y. Ching. Calligraphic couplets as manifestations of deities and markers of buildings / Cary Y. Liu. Chinese letters : private words made public / Qianshen Bai.