Wen C. Fong is professor emeritus of Chinese art history at Princeton University, where he taught from 1954 to 1999, established the country's first PhD program in Chinese and Japanese art and archaeology, and served for many years as faculty curator of Asian art at the Princeton University Art Museum. He also served as consultative chairman of the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for three decades before retiring in 2000. His many books include Images of the Mind, Beyond Representation, and Possessing the Past.

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "Fong is perhaps the preeminent scholar of Chinese art history integrated with a Western art historical perspective... This work is, in many ways, his comprehensive summation of over 50 years of work... The book is absolutely essential to any library that has a section devoted to the art of China. The book is also wonderfully designed and made."--Choice

• List of Illustrations vii Chronology of China xxi Foreword and Acknowledgements xxiii Calligraphy, Sculpture, and Paiting are One, But Sometimes Two or Three Jerome Silbergeld 1 1 Calligraphy and Painting as One 19 2 Gu Kaizhi's Admonitions Scroll 57 3 The Han-Tang Miracle at Dunhuang 109 4 Two Dong Yuans: Dual Paradigms of Naturalism and Calligraphic Expression 179 5 Sacred and Humanistic: Five Hundred Luohans at Daitokuji 215 6 Deconstructing Founding Paradigms: Landscape Painting after Mastering Representation 271 7 Wang Hui's Great Synthesis and Shitao's No-Method 319 8 Art and History: Zhang Daqian, In and Out of the Twentieth Century 383 Bibliography 425 Index-Glossary 451 Image Credits 478

Wen C. Fong is professor emeritus of Chinese art history at Princeton University, where he taught from 1954 to 1999, established the country's first PhD program in Chinese and Japanese art and archaeology, and served for many years as faculty curator of Asian art at the Princeton University Art Museum. He also served as consultative chairman of the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for three decades before retiring in 2000. His many books include Images of the Mind, Beyond Representation, and Possessing the Past.

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "Fong is perhaps the preeminent scholar of Chinese art history integrated with a Western art historical perspective... This work is, in many ways, his comprehensive summation of over 50 years of work... The book is absolutely essential to any library that has a section devoted to the art of China. The book is also wonderfully designed and made."--Choice

• List of Illustrations vii Chronology of China xxi Foreword and Acknowledgements xxiii Calligraphy, Sculpture, and Paiting are One, But Sometimes Two or Three Jerome Silbergeld 1 1 Calligraphy and Painting as One 19 2 Gu Kaizhi's Admonitions Scroll 57 3 The Han-Tang Miracle at Dunhuang 109 4 Two Dong Yuans: Dual Paradigms of Naturalism and Calligraphic Expression 179 5 Sacred and Humanistic: Five Hundred Luohans at Daitokuji 215 6 Deconstructing Founding Paradigms: Landscape Painting after Mastering Representation 271 7 Wang Hui's Great Synthesis and Shitao's No-Method 319 8 Art and History: Zhang Daqian, In and Out of the Twentieth Century 383 Bibliography 425 Index-Glossary 451 Image Credits 478

Wen C. Fong is professor emeritus of Chinese art history at Princeton University, where he taught from 1954 to 1999, established the country's first PhD program in Chinese and Japanese art and archaeology, and served for many years as faculty curator of Asian art at the Princeton University Art Museum. He also served as consultative chairman of the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for three decades before retiring in 2000. His many books include Images of the Mind, Beyond Representation, and Possessing the Past.

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "Fong is perhaps the preeminent scholar of Chinese art history integrated with a Western art historical perspective... This work is, in many ways, his comprehensive summation of over 50 years of work... The book is absolutely essential to any library that has a section devoted to the art of China. The book is also wonderfully designed and made."--Choice

• List of Illustrations vii Chronology of China xxi Foreword and Acknowledgements xxiii Calligraphy, Sculpture, and Paiting are One, But Sometimes Two or Three Jerome Silbergeld 1 1 Calligraphy and Painting as One 19 2 Gu Kaizhi's Admonitions Scroll 57 3 The Han-Tang Miracle at Dunhuang 109 4 Two Dong Yuans: Dual Paradigms of Naturalism and Calligraphic Expression 179 5 Sacred and Humanistic: Five Hundred Luohans at Daitokuji 215 6 Deconstructing Founding Paradigms: Landscape Painting after Mastering Representation 271 7 Wang Hui's Great Synthesis and Shitao's No-Method 319 8 Art and History: Zhang Daqian, In and Out of the Twentieth Century 383 Bibliography 425 Index-Glossary 451 Image Credits 478