The Printed Image in China

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents historic images of Chinese art from the 8th Century.

China invented both paper and printing and this exhibition presents an outstanding survey of the art of Chinese printing from the time of its inception in the ninth century through its burgeoning as an artistic medium during the seventeenth century and its continued vitality as a medium for both popular culture and political commentary during the twentieth century. The exhibition will consist of approximately 136 prints drawn from the encyclopedic holdings of the British Museum.