Page 6 - China, 5000 years : innovation and transformation in the arts

front cover: CHINA: 5,000 YEARS

Rearing dragon Curated by Sherman Lee
Tang dynasty (618-907)
cat. no. 59 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

back cover: February 6—June 3, 1998
Shang Xi
The Xuande Emperor on an Outing Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Summer 1998
Ming dynasty (136S-1644)
China: 5,000 Years has been organized by the
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Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with the
frontispiece:
Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China
Qi Gong and the National Administration for Cultural
Heritage of the People's Republic of China,
Exhibition of 5,000 Years of Chinese Art and Culture China International Exhibition Agency and
1997 Art Exhibitions China.

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© 1998 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, and Significant additional support has been provided by
The Starr Foundation
Arc Exhibitions China, Beijing. All rights reserved. The W.L.S. Spencer Foundation
and
Guggenheim Museum Publications Mori Building Company Limited

1071 Fifth Avenue This exhibition has also been made possible in part
by a major grant from the National Endowment for
New York, New York 10128 the Humanities, expanding America s understanding of
who we were, who we are, and who we will be.
Hardcover editions distributed by
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. This catalogue is supported by a grant from The Li-Ching
100 Fifth Avenue Cultural and Educational Foundation.

New York, New York 10011

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