@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {5048},
      author = {Hung, Wu},
      title = {Unearthing Wu Daozi (c. 686 to c. 760): The Concept of  Authorship in Tang Painting},
      journal = {Art History},
      address = {2022-05-23},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {Worshipped by later folk artists as the god of painting,  Wu Daozi (c. 686 to c. 760) was also praised by  ninth-century art historian Zhang Yanyuan as someone who  ‘did not look back and will have no successors’. But alas,  this ‘Sage of Painting’ (Hua sheng) left no work to us  (imagine if we knew Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo only  by reputation). Can archaeology remedy this unfortunate  situation as it has done for so many other fields from  classical philosophy to ancient science? How should we  utilize possible archaeological evidence in studying  painting practices? This essay suggests that a set of newly  discovered imperial tomb murals may allow us to approach  Wu's style more closely than ever before, and also leads us  to problematize the concept of authorship in an age when  individual authorship was inseparable from workshop  practice.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/5048},
}