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Tang Center for East Asian Art, and Museum purchase, Asian Art Department Fund\r\n","markings":null,"inscribed":null,"signed":"signed (on back)","catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":"©1985, Zhang Hongtu\r\n","restrictions":"Restricted","nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":true,"accessionyear":"2008-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[],"makers":[{"id":10508,"displayname":"Zhang Hongtu 張宏圖","displaydate":"born 1943, Pingliang, China; active New York, NY","datebegin":1943,"dateend":1943,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Zhang Hongtu 張宏圖, born 1943, Pingliang, China; active New York, NY","displayorder":1}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<font color=\"#7030a0\"><span lang=\"EN\">1985–2008\tZhang Hongtu (Brooklyn, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2008.</span></font><font color=\"#7030a0\">\n</font><font color=\"#7030a0\">\n</font><font color=\"#7030a0\">\n</font><font color=\"#7030a0\">\n</font>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Multivocal Label","textentryhtml":"In 1982, I lived in lower Manhattan and often walked across Times Square to the Art Students League on 58th Street. I was shocked by the flood of people coming toward me on the narrow sidewalks and soon realized that I was one of the crowd, no different from others. . . . Then, I started Fish. After days of repeated daubing on the canvas, Times Square disappeared, leaving a group of fish jumping into new waters. I tried to locate their expressions, but it was difficult; fright? strangeness? happiness? All right and all wrong. I’ll end with Zhuangzi, the fourth-century BCE Daoist philosopher: Zhuangzi pointed at a river, saying, &quot;How happy are the fish in the river!&quot; Huizi replied, &quot;You are not a fish; how do you know that the fish are happy?&quot; Zhuangzi said, &quot;You are not me; how do you know that I don’t know that fish are happy?&quot;\n<br />\n \n<br />\nZhang Hongtu\n","remarks":"ASIA4_16_WLA  – Day 1 Cataloguing"}],"media":[{"id":19253,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/OI18","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":"Restricted","caption":"Bruce White Photography"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2008,\"&nbsp;<em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 68 (2009): p. 69-119.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2008,\"&nbsp;<em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 68 (2009): p. 69-119., p. 107","date":2009,"id":974,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/25747109"}],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":1200,"citation":"Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art March 7 – June 7, 2009","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"2009-03-05","enddate":"2009-06-07","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/1200"}],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place made: North America, United States","code":"Place made","continent":"North America","subcontinent":null,"country":"United States","region":null,"state":null,"city":null,"county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":null,"locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/6252001/united-states.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2033355,"term":"Chinese","aatid":300018322,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2033651,"term":"modern Chinese styles and periods","aatid":300106420,"termtype":"Period / Style"},{"id":2052977,"term":"paintings","aatid":300033618,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2103924,"term":"fish","aatid":null,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2185131,"term":"Asian Artists Living and/or Working in the United States","aatid":null,"termtype":"Collection Theme"},{"id":2185132,"term":"Dialogues Between Asian and Western Art","aatid":null,"termtype":"Collection Theme"},{"id":2165436,"term":"acrylic","aatid":300014426,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2044653,"term":"canvas","aatid":300014078,"termtype":"Materials"}],"classifications":[{"id":2052977,"classification":"paintings"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2033355,"culture":"Chinese"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[{"id":2033651,"period":"modern Chinese styles and periods"}],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199319,"term":"Asian Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199324,"term":"Art Since 1945","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"165.41"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"183.19"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"4.76"}],"packages":[{"packageid":206416,"name":"image_descriptions_KG"},{"packageid":13674,"name":"Web_CollTheme_2014_AsiaDiaspora"},{"packageid":278831,"name":"10282025-DAY1-ONVIEW"},{"packageid":214207,"name":"Gallery_16-Asian"},{"packageid":185691,"name":"web_norightsclearance2000-present"},{"packageid":196242,"name":"web_2021_01_ArtForStreets"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/OI18"],"displaymaker":"Zhang Hongtu 張宏圖, born 1943, Pingliang, China; active New York, NY","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Zhang Hongtu 張宏圖 (born 1943, Pingliang, China; active New York, NY), Fish, 1985. 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