Over the last decade, Jason Steuber has contributed to major projects related to Chinese art, including the 1999 international loan exhibition, The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from The People's Republic of China, held at the National Gallery, Washington, DC and the 2004 two-volume set New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century published by Yale University Press. As a curator for the renowned Asian art collections housed at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO, he has published articles in several international journals, such as Apollo, Arts of Asia, ArtAsiaPacific, The Burlington Magazine, and Gugong Wenwu Yuekan (National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art). In addition to years of university teaching experience in the United States, he was recently named the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow in the Department of History of Art, Glasgow University.
-A magnificently reproduced compendium of paintings, scrolls,
textiles, and other objects paired with ageless poems, dramas, and
legends...illuminates the classical tradition that helped inspire a
new generation of innovative and daring young artists.-
--O, The Oprah Magazine
-The juxtaposition of artistic and literary works in this book
presents a rare beauty. Not only is each piece of literary work
accompanied by a piece of artwork from the same or nearby period,
every now and then you will run into a pleasant surprise from a
folded inset of exquisite painting opening to several pages.
I have a fair sized collection of English translations of ancient
Chinese poetry and prose, but none is like China: 3,000 Years of
Art and Literature. -This volume incorporates scholarly
translations that have appeared over several centuries, - editor
Jason Steuber points out. The variation in translation styles is a
great joy for a reader like me.
At the opening of this beautifully bound 10.5- x 14- classy book,
fully spread imperial sails shoot across swirling waves on two
facing pages. Seeing this famous 17th century painting so closely
for the first time, its inconceivable combination of magnificent
scale and meticulous detail fascinated me. Having just watched the
impressive boat formation made up of thousands of sailors during
the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony, I wondered whether Zhang
Yimou had copied this painting.-
--Xujun Eberlein, InsideOutChina.com
"A magnificently reproduced compendium of paintings, scrolls,
textiles, and other objects paired with ageless poems, dramas, and
legends...illuminates the classical tradition that helped inspire a
new generation of innovative and daring young artists."
--O, The Oprah Magazine
"The juxtaposition of artistic and literary works in this book
presents a rare beauty. Not only is each piece of literary work
accompanied by a piece of artwork from the same or nearby period,
every now and then you will run into a pleasant surprise from a
folded inset of exquisite painting opening to several pages.
I have a fair sized collection of English translations of ancient
Chinese poetry and prose, but none is like China: 3,000 Years of
Art and Literature. "This volume incorporates scholarly
translations that have appeared over several centuries," editor
Jason Steuber points out. The variation in translation styles is a
great joy for a reader like me.
At the opening of this beautifully bound 10.5" x 14" classy book,
fully spread imperial sails shoot across swirling waves on two
facing pages. Seeing this famous 17th century painting so closely
for the first time, its inconceivable combination of magnificent
scale and meticulous detail fascinated me. Having just watched the
impressive boat formation made up of thousands of sailors during
the Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony, I wondered whether Zhang
Yimou had copied this painting."
--Xujun Eberlein, InsideOutChina.com
The juxtaposition of artistic and literary works in this book
presents a rare beauty. Not only is each piece of literary work
accompanied by a piece of artwork from the same or nearby period,
every now and then you will run into a pleasant surprise from a
folded inset of exquisite painting opening to several pages. At the
opening of this beautifully bound 10.5" x 14" classy book, fully
spread imperial sails shoot across swirling waves on two facing
pages. Seeing this famous 17th century painting so closely for the
first time, its inconceivable combination of magnificent scale and
meticulous detail fascinated me. Having just watched the impressive
boat formation made up of thousands of sailors during the Beijing
Olympics' opening ceremony, I wondered whether Zhang Yimou had
copied this painting.
-Xujun Eberlein
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