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OverviewWith over 80 beautiful paintings and calligraphy scrolls, Elegant Gathering features one of the finest collections of Chinese art—unnacessible to the public until now. The Yeh Family collection—thought to have been begun by Ye Yanlan in the nineteenth century—has lasted a long time. Over the course of China's tumultuous modern history some works were lost or removed from the collection, while new ones were added. But the idea that these paintings and calligraphies constituted a family collection has remained. Now the current caretakers of the collection, Max Yeh and Yeh Tung, have donated more than one hundred thirty works from the collection to the Asian Art Museum, of which the eighty in this catalogue were shown in an exhibition at the museum. These eighty superb examples of Chinese painting and calligraphy date as far back as the seventh century. Included are a number of important paintings by leading artists of the early and mid-twentieth century. These are rare and significant works, but perhaps the collection's deepest meaning lies in its embodiment of values that have endured in China through generations of cultural and political change. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Max Yeh , Wen-Hsin Yeh , Kaz Tsuruta , Kuiyi ShenPublisher: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Imprint: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 30.50cm Weight: 1.332kg ISBN: 9780939117338ISBN 10: 0939117339 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 22 February 2006 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews-In 2003, the Yehs, a prominent Chinese family with West Coast links, donated their art collection to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. This show offers more than 80 images from the collection--mostly Chinese painting and calligraphy--from the Ming period to the 20th century. One highlight is an early album of Chu Suiliang, a Tang dynasty calligrapher.- --The New York Times In 2003, the Yehs, a prominent Chinese family with West Coast links, donated their art collection to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. This show offers more than 80 images from the collection--mostly Chinese painting and calligraphy--from the Ming period to the 20th century. One highlight is an early album of Chu Suiliang, a Tang dynasty calligrapher. --The New York Times """In 2003, the Yehs, a prominent Chinese family with West Coast links, donated their art collection to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. This show offers more than 80 images from the collection—mostly Chinese painting and calligraphy—from the Ming period to the 20th century. One highlight is an early album of Chu Suiliang, a Tang dynasty calligrapher."" —The New York Times" In 2003, the Yehs, a prominent Chinese family with West Coast links, donated their art collection to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. This show offers more than 80 images from the collection--mostly Chinese painting and calligraphy--from the In 2003, the Yehs, a prominent Chinese family with West Coast links, donated their art collection to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. This show offers more than 80 images from the collection mostly Chinese painting and calligraphy from the Ming period to the 20th century. One highlight is an early album of Chu Suiliang, a Tang dynasty calligrapher. <b>The New York Times</b> Author InformationMax Yeh, son of Ye Gongchao and retired Professor of Comparative Literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Wen-Hsin Yeh, Morrison Professor of Twentieth-Century Chinese History, Department of History, University of California, Berkley Kuyi Shen, Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego Jason C. Kuo, Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |