Smith Judith (ed.). Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1999. — 319 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-928-1This book is about a new look at the history of Chinese art. Few issues in Chinese art and art history arouse the passions of scholars and the public is readily as debates about authenticity, especially when work under scrutiny is a critically important as "Riverbank", a painting we attribute to the tenth-century landscape master Dong Yuan (active 930s-60). If either of these claims — that it is a product of the tenth century and is by the hand of Dong Yuan — is correct, "Reverbank" will call for the rewriting of early Chinese painting history.