Stephen Little with Shawn Eichman's Taoism and the Arts of China is the catalog of a major 2000 Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, written by the show's curators drawing on loaned objects from museums across China and the West. Its authority is that of a large curated survey grounded in close object study, useful for dating and describing ritual bronzes, talismans and painting across two millennia of Daoist material culture. As an exhibition catalog rather than a monograph, its essays synthesize existing scholarship for a broad audience and favor breadth of period and object type over the sustained argument a single-tradition specialist study would offer. Treat it as a reliable, well-illustrated survey of what Daoist art looked like and how it functioned devotionally, and follow its own bibliography where a narrower period or object class needs deeper treatment.
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Reliability Tier2
Custodial/institutional self-account (a museum's own record of its holdings). Museums and other institutional self-accounts sit at tier 2, not tier 1 or tier 3; tier 3 is reserved for a tradition's own account of its own teachings and practice. NotesScholarly museum exhibition catalogue on Taoism and its expression in Chinese art, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000.
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AuthorStephen Little with Shawn Eichman
PublisherThe Art Institute of Chicago
Publication Year2000
Source TypeMuseum
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