Joseph
Chang, associate curator of Chinese art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur
M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, received his bachelor's degree in
Chinese literature in 1978 from the Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan, and
his Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Kansas. He is a specialist in Chinese
painting and is coauthor of
Brushing
the Past: Later Chinese Calligraphy from the Gift of Robert Hatfield Elsworth
(Freer Gallery of Art, 2000). He has curated numerous exhibitions for the
museums, including two Bada Shanren exhibitions in 2003. From the late 1980s
through the mid-1990s, Dr. Chang was a research associate for exhibitions at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
in Kansas.
Paintings and Calligraphy by Bada Shanren from the Estate of Wang Fangyu and Sum Wai
Arts / Weatherhill Books
Hardcover / Weatherhill / 224 pages / 9 x 11
ISBN 978-0-8348-0525-5 / April 2003
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This compelling and lavishly illustrated presentation offers fresh insight into the mysterious life and works of Bada Shanren (1625–1705), the Chinese Ming dynasty master of the brush whose idiosyncratic visual vocabulary was full of personal symbolism and artistic gesture. The central catalogue...
