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  title info:
    title: Recasting the past
    sub title: the art of Chinese bronzes, 1100-1900
  name:
    name part: Lu, Pengliang
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: curator.
  name:
    name part: Ma, Clara
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
    role:
      role term: hosting institution,
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  name:
    name part: Shanghai bo wu guan
    role:
      role term: hosting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: exhibition catalogs.
  genre: Exhibition catalogs.
  genre: Catalogues d'exposition.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 303 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: "Chinese bronzes made from the 12th to the 19th century are an important but often overlooked category of Chinese art. In ancient China, bronze vessels were emblems of ritual and power. A millennium later, in the period from 1100 to 1900, such vessels were rediscovered as embodiments of a long-lost golden age that was worthy of study and emulation. This "return to the past" (fugu) was part of a widespread phenomenon across all the arts to reclaim the virtues of a classical tradition. An important aspect of this phenomenon was the revival of bronze casting as a major art form. While archaic bronzes were used as containers for food or wine, these so-called "later bronzes" adapted antique shapes and decorative motifs to serve new functions as incense burners, flower vases, and all types of scholar objects. Later Chinese bronzes, however, have long been stigmatized as poor imitations of ancient bronzes rather than being seen as fundamentally new creations with their own aesthetic and functional character. From important bronzes to a complementary selection of works including painting, calligraphy, ceramics, lacquers, and jades, the exhibition draws on an international array of loans to redress the previous misunderstanding of later Chinese bronzes. Some 100 pieces from The Met collection will be augmented by nearly 100 loans from major institutions in China, Japan, Korea, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States to present the most comprehensive narrative of the ongoing importance of bronzes as an art medium throughout China's long history." --
  table of contents: Directors' foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Chronology of dynastic China -- Note to the reader -- Introduction -- Reconstructing ancient rites : Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing ritual bronzes -- Plates -- Tracing a stylistic evolution : southern Song to early Ming archaistic bronzes -- Plates -- Establishing new standards : Ming bronze transformations -- Plates -- Living with bronzes : Ming-Qing literati taste -- Plates -- Harmonizing with antiquity : archaistic bronzes of the Qing dynasty -- Plates -- Works in the plates -- / compiled by Clara Ma -- Notes -- Index -- Photography credits
  note: Pengliang Lu
  note: "This catalogue is published in conjunction with Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from February 28 through September 28, 2025, and at the Shanghai Museum from November 12, 2025, through March 16, 2026"--Colophon
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index
  subject:
    topic: Bronzes, Chinese
    genre: Exhibitions
  subject:
    topic: Bronzes chinois
    genre: Expositions
  subject:
    topic: Bronzes, Chinese
  classification: NK7983.A1 L87 2025
  identifier: 9781588397904
  identifier: 1588397904
  identifier: 2025421461
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: MZA
    record creation date: 250207
    record change date: 20250804223701.5
    record identifier: in00005656765
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng