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"Masterson Study Gallery is designated for exhibitions that present works of art within the context of a single theme, critical argument, or aesthetic statement. An exhibition thus specifically directed in its purpose brings into sharp focus the special characteristics and nature of the works exhibited. In the Way of the Master, from February 6 to May 3, 1981, challenges the Museum audience to study an area of Oriental Art not currently represented in the Museum collection. The exhibition introduces the formal and technical questions of Chinese and Japanese painting, and this accompanying catalogue provides a source for the student who seeks further insight." -- Foreword.
This book takes an innovative approach to one of the great figures of Chinese culture, the writer and painter Wen Zhengming (1470–1559). Renowned as one of the great “scholar painters” of the Ming dynasty, Wen was enmeshed in a complex web of social obligations, his “elegant debts” as he called them, which led to many of his most celebrated works. Using an unprecedented quantity of primary sources for his life and work, Elegant Debts looks at the ways in which social obligation and gift exchange were central to personal and individual identity in the Ming period. The book also examines Wen’s family relationships, his friends, mentors, and pupils, his sense of a distinct local ide...
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