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...system, Confucianism, is the intellectual thread that Matsutaro Shoriki Curator of Asiatic Art Wu Tung attempts to draw across the three spacious galleries of the MFA's Gund Gallery. Nor should it bother us so much, at this stage in the game, that the scholar's rock and the Buddhist relief are utterly divorced from any notion of social function or historical relevance. As the exhibition labors to argue, the apparent ahistoricism of the initial salvo is possible only because Chinese culture itself has perpetuated the timelessness of its ancient aesthetic and philosophical traditions, allowing one to make logical comparisons...
...corner from this intriguing introduction is the first gallery, a darkly lit hall filled with sculptures, scrolls, and paintings from the China's earliest dynastic periods, most notably the Han (206 B.C. - A.D. 220) and Tang (618-907 A.D.) dynasties. Aside from a vitrine comparing a Neolithic pre-Buddhist wood painting to a brightly-colored yet carefully-shaded Buddhist silk scroll, the exhibition quickly abandons its emphatic insistence on religion as an organizing principle and begins to strain under the weight of its own ambitious chronological framework. An intricate gold dragon stands prominently along the main path with scant explanation...
...coherent intellectual framework--that continues to plague the exhibition's second gallery, a tripartite cross-section of Song Dynasty (960-1279) painting. Chen Rong's Nine Dragons scroll is accorded a central place as the source of the exhibition's title. There is also an impressive series of 10 Buddhist Lohan paintings from the temple of Kaitoku-ji in Kyoto, Japan (originally shown in the MFA's first Chinese painting exhibition...
...cover depicts the President and First Lady as narrow-eyed, buck-toothed Chinese in Mao suits and Vice President Al Gore '69 as a Buddhist monk...
Fortune smiled on AL GORE, who was re-elected Vice President. He was also a very successful party fund raiser, a mixed blessing. Gore's see-no-evil attendance at a Buddhist temple donorfest and the fund-raising calls he made from his office badly compromised his forthright image. Worse, they led to the March press conference where Mr. Clean became Uncle Wiggly. Though he's still the Democratic front runner for the year 2000, his troubles have encouraged rivals like Dick Gephardt and Bob Kerrey...