Storytelling through Inscriptions in Nonnarrative Chinese Paintings

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Using a number of works on view in the exhibition "Show and Tell: Stories in Chinese Painting," Assistant Research Curator Shi-yee Liu discusses how Chinese painters tell vivid stories by adding inscriptions to nonnarrative paintings.

Storytelling through Inscriptions in Nonnarrative Chinese Paintings

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