The Emperor's Eye

Duration: 56

Year Published: 1989

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Visits the Chinese Imperial Art Collection in Taiwan, emphasizing that the Chinese regard art as a means to keep in touch with their past and thus to discover their future. Explains that most of the art was collected in the 18th century by the Emperor Chienlung, who attempted to solidify his hold on the throne through his patronage of Chinese arts. Considers the 18th century literati whom Chienlung patronized, as well as present day artists, the meaning of landscape, calligraphy, ceramics, how the collection escaped capture by Japanese invaders and Chinese communists, the symbolism of the collection as a sign of power and recognition, and the future of Chinese art and artists.

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