Wen Fong (1930–2018)
Auteur de Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei
A propos de l'auteur
Wen C. Fong was born in Shanghai, China in 1930. He came to the United States at the age of 18. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in medieval European art history and a Ph.D in art history, with a focus on ancient China, from Princeton University. His doctoral work became the basis for afficher plus his first book The Lohans and a Bridge to Heaven. He taught at Princeton for 40 years and helped establish the nation's first doctoral degree program in Chinese art and archaeology there in 1959. His other books included Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy 8th-14th Century. He also helped the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York build one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art and antiquities in the world. He retired from the Met in 2000. He died from leukemia on October 3, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Wen Fong
Eighteen songs of a nomad flute: the story of Lady Wen-chi; a fourteenth-century handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum… (1974) — Directeur de publication — 44 exemplaires
Images of the Mind: Selections from the Edward L. Elliott Family and John B. Elliott Collections of Chinese Calligraphy (1984) 14 exemplaires
Between Two Cultures: Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Chinese Painting from the Robert H. Ellsworth… (2001) 12 exemplaires
Silent poetry: Chinese paintings in the Douglas Dillon Galleries (The Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin) (1981) 11 exemplaires
Problem of forgeries in Chinese painting 1 exemplaire
Reflections on Chinese Art History 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Treasures from the bronze age of China: An exhibition from the People's Republic of China (1980) — quelques éditions — 136 exemplaires
Returning Home: Tao-Chi's Album of Landscapes and Flowers (1976) — quelques éditions — 25 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Fong, Wen
- Autres noms
- Fong, Wen C.
- Date de naissance
- 1930
- Date de décès
- 2018-10-03
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- China (birth)
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Shanghai, China
- Lieu du décès
- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Études
- Princeton University
- Professions
- art historian
museum curator
consultant - Organisations
- Princeton University
Princeton University Art Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
College Art Association
Membres
Critiques
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- Œuvres
- 15
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 281
- Popularité
- #82,782
- Évaluation
- 3.2
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 22