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Eternity

Maxwell K. Hearn
2 min. watch

“We've gone from the solid world into this confrontation with the ultimate emptiness of life.”

Curator Maxwell K. Hearn on Cloudy Mountains, a fourteenth-century handscroll by Fang Congyi.

Contributors

Maxwell K. Hearn
Douglas Dillon Chairman, Department of Asian Art, MMA

Photography by Eileen Travell

Music by Austin Fisher

Art Mentioned

Cloudy Mountains, Fang Congyi Chinese, Handscroll; ink and color on paper, China
Cloudy Mountains
Fang Congyi
ca. 1360–70

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