第五章 龙门石窟之殇

书名:谁在收藏中国:美国猎获亚洲艺术珍宝百年记 作者:谢林·布里萨克/卡尔·梅耶

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第五章 龙门石窟之殇

你可以看到古代中国雕塑在全盛时期的样子:引自鲍威《透过通信看华尔纳》。Bowie,Langdon Warner through His Letters,33.

无意中提供了带照片的目录:引自斯坦利《平凡图像》。Stanley Abe,Ordinary Images(Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2002),191.

那种事情,将会极度伤害我的良心:引自华尔纳写给弗利尔的信。Langdon Warner to Freer,July 13,1913,Charles Lang Freer Papoers,FSGA,quoted in Cohen,East Asian Art and American Culture,89.

是美国的资本主义和帝国主义逻辑:引自《卢芹斋:中国艺术品的保卫者还是恶棍?》,2014年4月25日《金融时报》。David Pilling,“C.T.Loo:Champion of Chinese Art…Or Villain?”Financial Times,April 25,2014.

他的一些中国文物深藏地下室:引自《卢芹斋》。Eduard von der Heydt,“Cheng-Tsai Loo,”Artibus Asia,Vol.20:2/3(1957),186.

我记得那是1909年的春天:引自卢芹斋为《中国石造像展览》撰写的前言。C.T.Loo,An Exhibition of Chinese Stone Sculptures(C.T.Loo&Co.,1940),preface.

此后几个月:同上。

军队每晚都出动:引自华尔纳写给弗利尔的信。Warner to Charles Lang Freer,May 22,1914,Charles Lang Freer Papers,FSGA.

陌生人不能在现场停留:引自华尔纳向弗利尔提交的报告。report of Warner to Freer,n.d.,Charles Lang Freer Papers,FSA.

总的来说,龙门石窟令人难以置信:引自鲍威《透过通信看华尔纳》。Bowie,Langdon Warner through His Letters,58~59.

将乐享一个不同寻常、能用相对低价买入艺术珍品的良机:引自华尔纳写给弗利尔的信。Warner to Freer,May 26,1917,Charles Lang Freer Papers,FSA.

龙门石窟的正门处,有高度超过18米的巨大力士雕像佛龛:引自华尔纳《在中国漫长的古道上》。Warner,Long Old Road,9.

主要洞窟遭到洗劫:见《平凡图像》。Abe,Ordinary Images,191.

清晰而有条理:引自史克曼与亚历山大合著《中国艺术与建筑》。Laurence Sickman and Alexander Soper,The Art and Architecture of China(New Haven,CT:Yale University Press,1971),98.

因为波士顿博物馆拥有美国唯一最好、最可靠的中国和日本收藏:引自普艾伦写给史克曼的信。lan Priest to Laurence Sickman,May 9,1928,files of the Far Eastern Department,Metropolitan Museum,quoted in Cohen,East AsianArt and American Culture,112.

建设那座博物馆耗费了1100美元,来自《堪萨斯明星报》的所有人威廉·罗克希尔·纳尔逊的遗赠:参见史克曼讣告。Laurence Sickman obituary,NYT,May 11,1988.

我的中文进展缓慢:引自史克曼致华尔纳的信。Sickman to Warner,December 13,1930,filed in Gustav Ecke folder,Langdon Warner Archives,HUG 4872.1010,HUA.

那些古董商们,在中国内陆大城市都有永久代理:引自1982年史克曼访谈。“Laurence Sickman in his own words,1982 interview,”in Michael Churchman,Laurence Sickman,A Tribute(Kansas City,MO:Nelson-Atkins Museum,1988),25.

几乎接近完美、万无一失的眼力:引自1995年第4期《美成在久》。quote attributed to Ross Taggart in Churchman,“Laurence Sickman and the Formation of the Chinese Collection at the Nelson-Arkins Museum of Art,”Orientations,Vol.26:4(April 1995),50.

让我们下去看看那家伙拿到了什么:参见1982年史克曼访谈。Sickman,1982 interview,Churchman,Laurence Sickman,A Tribute,26.

史克曼与一位古董商在一起:引自欧文写给华尔纳的信。Owen Lattimore to Warner,May 19,1933,Lattimore Folder,Langdon Warner Papers,HUG 4872.1010,HUA.

风度翩翩:引自福开森写给华尔纳的信。John Ferguson to Langdon Warner,August25,1934,Box 3,Langdon Warner Files,Box 5,HUG 4872.1010,HUA.

一天中的最好时光:引自哈罗德·阿克顿《一位审美家的传记》。Harold Acton,Memoirs of an Aesthete(London:Methuen,1948),324.

一只只单手、头像碎块、浅浮雕佛龛装饰和铭文碎块。引自华尔纳档案。Sickman outline of Longmen vandalism,Langdon Warner Files,Box 13,HUG 4872.1010,HUA.

我告诉他龙门石窟的状况:引自史克曼写给华尔纳的信。Sickman toWarner,August23,1935,Langdon Warner Files,Box 13,HUG 4872.1010,HUA.

对你来说是否过于麻烦:引自卢芹斋写给史克曼的信。T.L.Yuan to Sickman,December 7,1932,KC MS 001,Series II,Box 12,NAMA.

那时,我们开始听说:引自卢芹斋写给史克曼的信。Sickman to Warner,February 5,1934,Langdon Warner Files,Box 13,HUG 4872.1010,HUA.

我们接下来干什么:引自史克曼写给华尔纳的信。Sickman to Warner,February 5,1934,Langdon Warner Files,Box 13,HUG 4872.1010,HUA.

正邮汇给你6000美元:引自瓦尔多发给加德纳的电报。telegram from Edward Waldo to Paul Gardner,April 25,1934,Forbes Papers(HC 2),Files 539,HAMA.

那时,我是一个快乐的质朴青年:引自史克曼写给吉姆的信。Sickman to Jim Plumer,May 2,1934,(RG 02)Series I,Sub-Series A,5.18-5.19“P,”NAMA.

3个大箱子已经离开:引自史克曼写给华尔纳的信。Sickman to Warner,May 28,1934,Langdon Warner Files,Box 13,HUG 4872.1010,HUA.

当然,所有头像和一些服饰褶纹残块都是原物:引自史克曼写给华尔纳的信。Sickman to Warner,June 14,1934,Langdon Warner Files,Box 13,HUG 4872.1010,HUA.

我深感遗憾:引自伯查德写给史克曼的信。Otto Burchard to Sickman,August3,1934,MS 001,Series I,Box 1 a,NAMA.

完美无比的中式住宅里:引自普艾伦写给萨克斯的信。Alan Priest to Paul Sachs,February 14,1926,Paul J.Sachs Papers(HC 3),File 540,HAMA.

我第一次发现,东西方在同一屋檐下共享真正的快乐:引自普艾伦给萨克斯的报告。as reported to Priest to Sachs,February 26,1927,Paul J.Sachs Papers(HC 3),in Paul Sachs Archive,HUAMA,China Expedition Alan Priest Files(1925-1927).

满城沸沸扬扬:引自普艾伦写给萨克斯的信。Priest to Sachs,October 1,1927,Paul J.Sachs Papers(HC 3),File 540,HAMA.

完全中国化:引自卡尔写给约翰的信。Carl Bishop to John Lodge,November 8,1927,Carl Bishop 1917 File,FSGA,quoted in Cohen,East Asian Art and American Culture,117.

然而,我很清楚:引自普艾伦写给萨克斯的信。Priest to Sachs,October 1,1927,Paul J.Sachs Papers(HC 3),File 540,HAMA.

如瓷器和青铜器那样的美物:引自普艾伦写给罗宾逊的信。Priest to Edward Robinson,July 8,1927,Paul J.Sachs Papers(HC 3),File 540,HAMA.

构建与纽约这座城市和大都会艺术博物馆规模相匹配的收藏:引自2013年第2期《美成在久》杂志。Alan Priest,“Recommendation for Purchase”(1929),quoted in Daisy Wang,“Papa’s Pagoda in Paris:The Gift of the C.T.Loo Family Photographs to the Freer and Sackler Galleries,”Orientations,Vol.44:2(February 2013),140.

龙门石窟的伟大浮雕:引自普艾伦写给温洛克的信。Priest to Herbert Winlock,February 15,1934,35.146,Curatorial Files Far Eastern Art,MMA.

正与老福开森神父、年轻可爱的史克曼、兰登·华尔纳和堪萨斯城串通实施某种阴谋:引自《东亚艺术与美国文化》。Cohen,East Asian Art and American Culture,118.

显得相当尴尬:引自史克曼写给华尔纳的信。Sickman to Warner,May 28,1934,Langdon Warner Files,Box 13,HUG 4872.1010,HUA.

如果山里面出事:引自《龙门石窟供养人:中世纪中国佛教雕塑中的信仰、政治与庇护》。Amy McNair,Donors of Longmen:Faith,Politics and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture(Honolulu:University of Hawaii Press,2007),43.

那份合同一清二楚地表明:同上。

龙门石窟是如此遭受蹂躏的:引自普艾伦《大都会艺术博物馆所藏中国雕塑》。Alan Priest,Chinese Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art(New York:MMA,1944),26.

有关龙门石窟头像:see letter from C.T.Currelly to Edward Forbes,December 23,1936,Edward Waldo Forbes Papers(HC 2),File 1791,HAMA.

现在,我已是古稀之年:引自卢芹斋公司的停业声明。“C.T.Loo,Inc.Announcement of Liquidation,”Copy in Langdon Warner Files,Loo Folder,HUG 4872.1010,HUA.

从原属国出口考古文物:引自中央古物保护委员会声明。National Commission for the Preservation of Antiquities(1931),copy in Carl Tilden Keller collection concerning Sir Aurel Stein,MS Am 2532,HLHU.

我认为那是一种暴行:引自福布斯写给加德纳的信。Edward Forbes to Paul Gardner,April 25,1934,Edward Waldo Forbes Papers(HC 2),File 1215,HAMA.

如果我们因购买那些浮雕碎块遭受批评:引自鲍威《透过通信看华尔纳》。Bowie,Langdon Warner through His Letters,147.

我深感羞愧:引自卢芹斋《中国石造像展览》前言。C.T.Loo,An Exhibition of Chinese Stone Sculptures,preface.

据说,博物馆的主要功能之一,是保存过去的纪念物:引自《龙门石窟的碎块》,1941年5月《大都会艺术博物馆馆刊》。Alan Priest,“A Stone Fragment from Lung Men,”Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 36,no.5(May 1941),115~116.

宾阳洞那两块男女供养人的浮雕:同上,27页。

那些浮雕很像我们人类:引自《龙门石窟供养人》。McNair,Donors of Longmen,43.

整个项目得到了爱德华·福布斯的资助:引自史克曼写给费正清的信。Laurence Sickman to Wilma Fairbank,July 21,1981,courtesy of Holly Fairbank.

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