Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

Ashmolean − Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

The Past in the Present: Script and Archaism in Modern Chinese Art

(from 6th Oct 2010 until 27th Feb 2011)

Explore the influence of early Chinese writing and artefacts on the art of the twentieth century and beyond.

Detail of Peonies in a bronze vessel, China, 1903 (Museum No: EA2007.103)
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  • Description

    Bovey Lee is a Hong Kong-born artist who uses the traditional medium of papercut to explore contemporary themes, here depicting herself in a sacrificial context against a ground of classical wave motif.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    2006
    Artist/maker
    Bovey Lee (born 1969)
    Material and technique
    cut paper
    Dimensions
    frame 49 x 64 x 3 cm (height x width x depth)
    papercut 17.5 x 34.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    cut
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented in honour of the 75th birthday of Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.252

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