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"title": "Year in Review: 1980",
"description": "Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).",
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"title": "The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art",
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"title": "To the River's South in Japanese Painting",
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"description": "These paintings were part of a set of album leaves representing the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a theme originating in Chinese poetry and painting that spread to both Korea and Japan. Southern China\u2019s Xiao-Xiang area, where the mist-covered banks of the Xiang River created a complex landscape shifting like the moods and minds of people, captured the imaginations of generations of painters and calligraphers. Inscriptions on these works suggest that they were possibly ordered by newly prominent Japanese Confucian scholars.",
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"citation": "Chance, Frank L. \u201cTani Bunch\u014d\u2019s Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang: Origins, Ideas, Implications.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 8 (October 1989): 266\u2013279.",
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"citation": "Sun, Seunghye. \"The Lure of Painted Poetry.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 51, no. 2 (March/April 2011): 4-5.",
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"citation": "Dwinger, Jim. \"Vermillion Designs: Seals as Textual Motifs in Ukiyo-e Prints by Utagawa Hiroshige.\" Andon: Bulletin of the Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts 115, 1 (2023): 44-67.
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