"China 5,000 Years explores innovation and transformation in Chinese art over a period of five millennia, from neolithic jades of the third millennium BCE through the modern era. While the very length of this continuous cultural tradition may suggest a profound conservatism, China has in fact produced daring, trangressive, and stylistically and technologically innovatiove art for a longer period of time, and at a higher level of sophistication, than any other civilisation in history. This exhibition, which is designed to confirm that assertion, results from the timely convergence of two distinct factors: a wealth of newly excavated objects and artifacts of stunning beauty and significance, and an increased appreciation in China of cultural achievements of the twentieth century. As a consequence, the juxtaposition of modern Chinese art with its traditional counterpart in an exhibition mounted by a major Western museum has been made possible for the first time ever." - Thomas Krens, Director of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Extract from Introduction and Acknowledgement.
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English
1998
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catalogue
Introduction - Sherman LEE, ZHANG Wenbin, Thomas KRENS
Some Elements in the Intellectual and Religious Context of Chinese Art - Patricia EBREY
Five Thousand Years of Chinese Culture - YU Weichao
Jade as Material and Epoch - Elizabeth CHILDS-JOHNSON
Ritual Bronzes-Epitome of Ancient Chinese Civilisation - MA Chengyuan
Innovation in Ancient Chinese Metalwork - SO Jenny F., 蘇芳淑
So Fine A Luster: Chinese Lacquerwares - Michael J. KNIGHT
Art of Silk and Art on Silk in China - ZHAO Feng
Realities of Life and Death: Constructing a Posthumouse World in Funerary Art - WU Hung, 巫鴻
The Development of Chinese Ceramics: A Brief Survey - WANG Qingzheng
Ceramics in China: Making Treasures from Earth - Regina KRAHL
Origins and Trends in the Depiction of Human Figures in China of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries - SU Bai
Transfiguring Divinities: Buddhist Sculpture in China - Helmut BRINKER
Calligraphy - Peter STURMAN
Calligraphy and Painting - The Essence of a Civilisation - LIU Jiuan
Chinese Painting: Innovation After 'Progress' Ends - James CAHILL, 高居翰
China 5,000 Years: Innovation and Transformation in the Arts
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