SOAS Library: Chinese art and archaeology collection

Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 13(1): 7, 2014

Neil Brodie and Catherine Hills (eds), Material Engagements: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew. Cambridge: McDonald Institute, 83–108., 2004

2012

J ust over a year ago, Jane and Leopold Swergold surprised and delighted the Bellarmine Museum of Art with a gift of four Han and Tang pottery objects from their stellar collection of ancient Chinese art. We were, of course, thrilled to accept their generous donation, which not only filled an important gap in the museum's permanent collection but also catalyzed a series of enriching conversations about Chinese art and culture at the museum; conversations that culminated in Immortality of the Spirit: Chinese Funerary Art from the Han and Tang Dynasties, on view at the Bellarmine from April 12-June 6, 2012. This exhibition was envisioned by the museum as a platform not only for highlighting the Swergolds' remarkable gift but also enhancing our visitors' understanding of ancient Chinese funerary art by placing such objects in a broader cultural context. Thus the Bellarmine's Sichuan Qin Player, Pair of Green Glazed Grooms, and Figure of a Soldier are accompanied in our galleries by nine related objects, all of which were generously lent to the museum by the Swergolds for this show. The care with which the Swergolds' collection was assembled is evinced both by its exceptionally high quality and by its remarkable internal coherence. Their fine holdings equally bear witness to the vast stores of knowledge they have accumulated over the course of the past two decades, as the Swergolds developed into world-class connoisseurs (a favorable term, derived from the French verb connaître, that suggests expansive knowledge and nuanced understanding) of Chinese art. The depth of their learning (Mrs. Swergold, who taught Interior Design at Fairfield University for over twenty years, wrote her MA thesis on Chinese tester beds, while Mr. Swergold has served as a trustee at the Smithsonian Institution's Freer-Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC, currently sits on the Collections Committee of the Harvard University Museums and organized and directed Treasures Rediscovered-Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University, an exhibition which premiered in Manhattan in the spring of 2008 before traveling to the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida,

Orientations, 2003

Introduction to the Chinese Collection of the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, along with an interview with E. Robert Hunter, director of the Museum, 1943-49 and 1962-75, pp. 84-85.

The China Quarterly, 2007

This is a pre-press sample article brochure for the readers to get a glance of the journal. Interest in Chinese antiquities is growing globally. A key resource on the fascinating history of Chinese archaeological artifacts and art is now available in English. Chinese Cultural Relics is the official English translation of the prestigious award-winning Chinese archaeology journal Wenwu (Cultural Relics). Published since the 1950s, Wenwu is well known in China and abroad for its quality articles and in-depth reporting of Chinese archaeological surveys and fieldwork. Until the publication of Chinese Cultural Relics, the information presented in this key resource has only been accessible to those who can read Chinese. Each issue of Chinese Cultural Relics contains content from three recent issues of Wenwu; the premier issue of Chinese Cultural Relics includes articles from issues No. 10, No. 11 and No. 12, 2013. In addition to high-quality translation, each article includes the same high-quality, detailed photographs and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations as in the Chinese publication. Subjects covered in Chinese Cultural Relics include: new archaeological findings research and exploration bamboo slips and documents bronze wares inscriptions and epitaphs ancient towns and villages archaeological preservation the archaeology of science and technology museum exhibitions...and more As interest in China's history continues to grow, your students and research community will no doubt appreciate having this rich information on Chinese archaeology and cultural relics available to them in English. For more information regarding the journal or to subscribe the journal, please visit: http://eastviewpress.com/Journals/CulturalRelics.aspx

Critique d’art

Journal of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Studies, No. 1 / 《中國書畫研究集刊》第一輯, 2023