Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368)

This book was published on occasion of a travelling exhibition of art from the Yuan Dynasty, held at the Cleveland Museum of Art from October 2 - November 24, 1968. The exhibition also traveled to the Asia Society in New York, in 1969.

'...The art and culture of the Yuan Dynasty should have a

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particular interest and significance for the art-minded today. Within the limits of Chinese society at the time, the fourteenth-century artist, writer, scholar was confronted with many of the problems we confront today. Alienation, revolt, the individual, the in-group, identity and character, these and many others are as much a part of the Yuan ethos as of today. The visible responses and solutions of the artists, within the rules of a game they had to play, should be of particular interest today.'

(Abstract from preface by Sherman Lee)

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