Possessing the Past, Wen Fong & James Watt, New York, Harry N. Abrams, FINE HC
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Fong, Wen C. & James Watt. New York. Harry N. Abrams. 1996.
English, Second Edition, Fine, HC, Quarto, 12 ½” X 9 ½”, [xv] 648 pp.
ISBN:0810964945
Fine hardcover in bronze cloth, Fine with pictorial dust jacket. [xv] 648 pp., 436 color plates, 190 halftones reproduce hundreds of masterpieces from the Chinese Palace Museum in Taiwan. Made to accompany the third great exhibition of Chinese masterworks to travel to the West, this publication serves as a cultural history narrating the evolution of Chinese art from the Bronze Age through the dynasties of Sung, Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing, highlighting the contrast between China's political absolutism and the humanistic principles evident in its art and moral philosophy.