Swallow's Mouth Cave / Chang Ku-nien
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.109
- Title
- Swallow's Mouth Cave
- Artist
- Chang Ku-nien
- Artist Nationality
- Chinese
- Artist Life Dates
- (Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1978
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Michigan (state)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Michigan (state)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Cheng-Yang and Mrs. Shirley Chang
- Dimensions
- 60 cm x 39 cm (23 5/8 in. x 15 3/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- A view, perhaps from inside a cave, that provides a glimpse of a small strech of highway through mountainous terrain. A river flows below, cutting a path between the mountains.
- Subject Matter
- A scene of the Cross-Island Highway in Taiwan. Central Cross-Island Highway was the first national highway of great magnitude, crossing the Central Mountain Range and connecting the east coast to the west bank of Taiwan. Running through exceedingly rugged and unstable terrain, the construction of this route was extremely challenging. The completion of the roadway not only was celebrated as a symbolic icon of Taiwan’s governmental accomplishment, but also because it opened to worldwide tourists astonishing, yet previously un-accessible scenic spots of Taroko Gorge and nearby natural mountainous areas along the route, nowadays known as the Taroko National Park.
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- buildings and the land
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- natural landscapes
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- scroll paintings
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2563 x 3670
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 2006/1.109
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.109/2006_1_109.jpg
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"Swallow's Mouth Cave; Chang Ku-nien." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2006-sl-1.109/2006_1_109.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.