“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.
Eternity
Maxwell K. Hearn
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Maxwell K. Hearn
Douglas Dillon Chairman, Department of Asian Art, MMA
Douglas Dillon Chairman, Department of Asian Art, MMA
Photography by Eileen Travell
Music by Austin Fisher
Art Mentioned
Fang Congyi
ca. 1360–70
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