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September 6, 2002
Wen C. Fong Between Two Cultures: Late-Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Yale University Press, 2000. 300 pp.; 114 color ills.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300088507)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 30-August 19, 2001.

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If the standard exhibition catalogue of Chinese art is a collection of topical essays and entries that describe individual items, then Between Two Cultures: Late-Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is both more and less than what we normally expect. Wen C. Fong’s book neither provides sufficient description of the exhibition’s contents, allowing the reader to know what was in it, nor tells him or...