Exhibition "Taiosm and the Arts of China" at the Art Institute of Chicago November 4 2000-January 14 2001
Foreword (James M. Wood)
Acknowledgments (Stephen Little)
Notes to the Reader
Map of China
Chronological Table of Chinese Periods and Dynasties
Taoism and the Arts of China (Stephen Little)
Taoism: The Story of the Way (Kristofer Schipper)
Taoist Architecture (Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt)
Mapping Early Taoist Art: The Visual Culture of Wudoumi Dao (Wu
Hung)
Taoism and Art at the Court of Song Huizong (Patricia Ebrey)
CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION
I. THE FORMATION OF THE TAOIST TRADITION
1. Laozi and the Origins of Taoism
2. Heaven and Earth: Taoist Cosmology
3. Sacred Mountains and Cults of the Immortals
II. THE TAOIST CHURCH
1. The Beginnings of Religious Taoism
2. Taoist Ritual
3. The Taoist Pantheon
III. THE TAOIST RENAISSANCE
1. Taoism and Popular Religion
2. Divine Manifestations of Yin: Goddesses and Female Saints
3. Zhenwu, the Perfected Warrior
4. Taoist Immortals
5. Inner Alchemy and Its Symbolism
6. The Sacred Landscape
Chinese Names and Terms
Bibliography
Contributers
Lenders to the Exhibition
Photography Credits
Index
Stephen Little, Pritzker Curator of Asian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, is an authority on Chinese and Japanese art. His numerous publications include Spirit Stones of China (California, 1999), Visions of the Dharma: Japanese Buddhist Paintings and Prints in the Honolulu Academy of Arts(1991), and Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period,1620-1683 (1983).
"The marvelous catalog might tide you over between visits . . ."--"San Francisco Examiner review of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum exhibition
"The marvelous catalog might tide you over between visits . . ."--"San Francisco Examiner review of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum exhibition
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