2008年3月3日 星期一

Max Loehr 羅越先生

趁這機緣,簡單記這今早一段閱讀經驗:

miao:「翻譯工作坊看到的訊息:好像有人要買你的書噢」

hc:「謝謝資訊 年餘沒訪該寶地」

補:(舊地新文那堪憶)最高興有機會讀王道還先生的文章(我一向敬佩他)。

謝謝tity。我用email簡復的信你應該收到。再說聲謝謝。

趁這機緣,簡單記這今早一段閱讀經驗:

miao:「翻譯工作坊看到的訊息:好像有人要買你的書噢」

hc:「謝謝資訊 年餘沒訪該寶地」

補:(舊地新文那堪憶)最高興有機會讀王道還先生的文章(我一向敬佩他)。

特地將今天「曙爽行將拂,晨清坐欲凌。」時分讀The Great Painters of China( by Max Loehr, Oxford: Phaidon, 1980.) 書末的(或許意味深遠)詩給王老師和simon university等地朋友參考:

(鄭板橋詠蘭詩):
買塊蘭花是整根,神完力足長兒孫;
莫嫌今歲花開少,還看明春發滿盆。

此詩為根據英文在網路找到的,感謝:【經典札記】 蘭香透遠 撰文/王思熙 《經典》200503月號 80



羅越(Max Loehr)


研究領域︰中國古代美術史

簡 介︰
   羅越(1903-1988)是第一代世界知名的中國藝術史學者,曾任哈佛大學藝術系教授。他開創性地利用紋樣的風格分析將河南安陽青銅器劃分為五個時期, 並且在其後的考古發掘中得到印證,從而極大地激勵了後來的藝術史學者將風格分析引入中國繪畫史研究的信心。

出版書籍:
‧Bronze Styles of the Anyang Period, Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 7 (1953): 42-53.

‧EARLY CHINESE JADES. A Loan Exhibition Presented by the Museum of Art, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, 1953.

‧CHINESE BRONZE AGE WEAPONS. The Werner Jannings Collection in the Chinese National Palace Museum. Ann Arbor, 1956.

‧Chinese landscape woodcuts—— from an imperial commentary to the tenth-century printed edition of the Buddhist canon. Cambridge,Mass,Harvard University Press,1968.

‧Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China ,New York: The Asia Society, Inc., 1968.

‧The great painters of China / Max Loehr. Oxford,Phaidon,1980.

發表文章︰
‧CHINESISCHE PICKELAXTE. Monumenta Serica Vol. IV, Fasc. 2. Peiping, 1940. pp. 594-604 plus 2 pp. b/w plates.

‧THE EARLIEST CHINESE SWORDS AND THE AKINAKES. Oriental Art, Vol. I, No. 3. London, 1948. pp. 132-142.

‧ORDOS DAGGERS AND KNIVES: PART ONE: DAGGERS AND PART TWO: KNIVES. New Material, Classification and Chronology. Artibus Asiae, Vol. XII, 1/2 & XIV, 1/2. Ascona, 1949-51. pp. 23-83; pp. 77-162. Many b/w text drawings. 2 vols.

‧THE BRONZE STYLES OF THE ANYANG PERIOD (1300-1028 B.C.). Archives Chinese Art Society America VII. New York, 1953. pp. 42-53 plus 5 pp. b/w plates.

‧THE STAG IMAGE IN SCYTHIA AND THE FAR EAST. Archives Chinese Art Society America IX. New York, 1955. pp. 63-73 plus 3 pp. b/w plates.

‧APROPOS OF TWO PAINTINGS ATTRIBUTED TO MI YU-JEN. Ars Orientalis III. Ann Arbor, 1959. pp. 167-173 and 8 b/w plates.

‧A LANDSCAPE ATTRIBUTED TO WEN CHENG-MING. Artibus Asiae Vol. XXII, 1/2. Ascona, 1959. pp. 143-152. 2 pp. b/w plates.

‧THE QUESTION OF INDIVIDUALISM IN CHINESE ART. Journal of the History of Ideas XXII:2. New York, 1961. pp. 147-158.

‧SOME FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN THE HISTORY OF CHINESE PAINTING. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. N.p., 1965. pp. 37-43.

‧THE FATE OF THE ORNAMENT IN CHINESE ART. Archives of Asian Art Vol. XXI. New York, 1968. pp. 8-19

‧ART-HISTORICAL ART: ONE ASPECT OF CH'ING PAINTING. Oriental Art, Vol. XVI, No. 1. London, 1970. pp. 1-3

‧THEMES AND VARIATIONS: A WINTER LANDSCAPE IN THE FREER GALLERY AND RELATED VERSIONS. Ars Orientalis IX. N.p., 1973. pp. 131-136 and 4 pp. b/w plates.

紐約時報

Max Loehr, 84, a Leading Scholar in Oriental Art


Published: September 21, 1988

LEAD:

Max Loehr, professor and curator of Oriental art at Harvard University from 1960 to 1974, died of complications resulting from Parkinson's disease at St. Joseph's Hospital in Nashua, N.H., last Friday. He was 84 years old and lived in Lexington, Mass.

Max Loehr, professor and curator of Oriental art at Harvard University from 1960 to 1974, died of complications resulting from Parkinson's disease at St. Joseph's Hospital in Nashua, N.H., last Friday. He was 84 years old and lived in Lexington, Mass.

One of the foremost authorities on Chinese bronzes and jades, and a specialist as well in ancient Chinese painting, Professor Loehr published eight books and numerous articles in these fields.

The product of a rigorous German training in art history, he was known for incisive observations that led to larger truths, for instance that the ornamental segment of Chinese art declines in quality and importance as the pictorial segment grows. A scholar of broad reach, he grappled with such basic and circular problems as how to understand the historical development of Chinese painting, in which the datable monuments are so few that there is no firm basis for the historical understanding on which the dating of other works must depend.

He was also admired for his ability to apply stylistic analysis to the dating of artifacts. In 1953, for example, he published a major article on bronzes of the Shang Dynasty, discovered in the 1920's at Anyang, China. Although other scholars had tried to date the bronzes by study of their motifs, Professor Loehr traced their development by applying stylistic methods he had learned from the teachings of the great Swiss art historian Heinrich Wolfflin. Later archeological explorations confirmed Professor Loehr's observations.


Early Artistic Leanings

He was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, on Dec. 4, 1903, the son of a textile merchant. As a youth, he sought to become a painter, but family circumstances compelled him to work for some years in a bank. He was finally able to enter the University of Munich in 1931, where he studied art history, specializing in Far Eastern art.

After earning his Ph.D. in 1936, he took a post as assistant in charge of the Asiatic collections at the Museum fur Volkerkunde in Munich. A trip to Beijing in 1940 to study at the Sino-German Institute was prolonged by World War II. Remaining in Beijing for nine years, he served as director of the institute and as assistant professor at Tsinghua University there. He returned to his former post in Munich in 1949. Two years later, offered a professorship by the University of Michigan, he came to the United States.



王世襄所著《錦灰不成堆》(三聯出版社出版 2007年7月) 有羅越先生的照片和紀事 (非主要人物)

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In the fall of 1960, Professor Loehr accepted the newly founded Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chair in East Asian Art at Harvard. There, he taught courses and seminars on a wide range of topics, from Buddhist art and iconography to Chinese archeology and Chinese painting, and served as curator of Oriental art at the Fogg Museum. He also catalogued the ancient jades at the museum in the Grenville L. Winthrop collection, considered the finest holding of its kind in the world. He retired from Harvard in 1974.

Professor Loehr is survived by his wife, Irmgard; two sons, Klaus, of Amherst, N.H., and Thomas, of Portland, Ore., and a granddaughter. A memorial service is to be held on Oct. 30 at 2 P.M. in Memorial Church at Harvard.

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