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In a career spanning seven decades, Liu Kuo-sung has reinvented the millennium-old tradition of ink painting.
The Liu Kuo-sung Reader, the first anthology in English devoted to the painter, gathers many previously untranslated or unpublished texts, illuminating issues such as the politics of artmaking and the dynamics of creative freedom.
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Eugene Y. Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University and the founding director of Harvard FAS CAMLab, an initiative that explores the nexus of cognition, art, and media. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is also the art history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism. His extensive publications range from early Chinese art and archaeology to modern and contemporary Chinese art and cinema.Valerie C. Doran is an independent scholar and curator in the field of Chinese modern and contemporary art, and past associate editor of Orientations magazine. She is currently a Fellow at CAMLab, Harvard University.Alan C. Yeung is an art historian and curator. Currently Curatorial Fellow at CAMLab, Harvard University, he was previously Associate Curator at Ink Studio, Beijing, and has created a series of short documentaries on contemporary Chinese ink artists.Eugene Y. Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University and the founding director of Harvard FAS CAMLab, an initiative that explores the nexus of cognition, art, and media. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is also the art history editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism. His extensive publications range from early Chinese art and archaeology to modern and contemporary Chinese art and cinema.
Summary
In a career spanning seven decades, Liu Kuo-sung has reinvented the millennium-old tradition of ink painting. The Liu Kuo-sung Reader, the first anthology in English devoted to the painter, gathers many previously untranslated or unpublished texts, illuminating issues such as the politics of artmaking and the dynamics of creative freedom.
