Edmund Capon
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Dr Edmund Capon AM OBE (born 1940 in England) is an art scholar specialising in Chinese art. He has been director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales since 1978. He is also Chairman of football (soccer) club, Sydney FC. Dr Edmund Capon became the director of the Art Gallery of NSW in 1979 and with his ideas he has transformed the Art Gallery of NSW and made it a major cultural institution within Australia. Specialising in Chinese textiles and costume he has created a large and diverse collection of art works that capture the attention of everyone that visits.
Under his direction the Art Gallery of NSW has become a major cultural institution within Sydney. Remarkably the annual Archibald Prize exhibition is the best attended Art Exhibition in Australia most years.
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- Chinese painting: 64 reproductions.
- Gamarada: Friends. [photography by Christopher Snee, Jenni Carter & Ray Woodbury].
- With Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook.
- With Liu Yang and James HayesPoetic Mandarin: Chinese calligraphy from the James Hayes collection. (Chinese: Huan hai mo yun: Xu Shu cang Zhongguo Qing dai shu fa)
- Art and Archaeology in China.
- Chinese tomb figures.
- With William MacQuitty, Princes of jade.
- Tang China: Vision and splendour of a golden age. Photography by Werner Forman.
- With Liu Yang, Masks of Mystery: Ancient Chinese bronzes from Sanxingdui. (Chinese: Jia mian zhi mi: Sanxingdui chu tu Zhong Guo gu dai qing tong qi)
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