Issues of authenticity in Chinese art : papers prepared for an international symposium organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition "the artist as collector: masterpieces of Chinese painting from the C.C. Wang family coll

Published in conjunction with a December 1999 symposium held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and an exhibition, "The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection." Twelve contributions give dissenting opinions regarding a book recently published by The Museum titled Along the Riverbank , which seeks to attribute the painting called "Riverbank" to the 10th-century landscape master Dong Yuanan attribution that would call for the rewriting of early Chinese painting history. This volume contains 239 b&w illustrations to support the contributors' efforts to explain their opinions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Few issues in Chinese art and art history arouse the passions of scholars and the public as readily as debates about authenticity, especially when the work under scrutiny is as critically important as Riverbank, a painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art attributes to the tenth-century landscape master Dong Yuan (active 930s{u2013}60s). If either of these claims{u2014}that it is a product of the tenth century and is by the hand of Dong Yuan{u2014}is correct, Riverbank will call for the rewriting of early Chinese painting history. To support its belief in the veracity of the painting, the Museum recently published the book Along the Riverbank, a study of the documentation and the style of Riverbank that seeks to place the painting in its historical context. This volume, the result of an international symposium of the same name held on December 11, 1999, is published to give a thorough airing to the dissenting opinions about Riverbank held by some leading scholars in the field and to examine the methods by which scholars analyze and interpret Chinese paintings.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website