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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (Paperback, New Ed)
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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Culture & Civilization of China
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From Neolithic painted petroglyphs, early paintings on silk, and
landscapes by twelfth-century literati to the traditional
handscrolls being produced today, Chinese painting has always had
the power to enthrall. This magnificent book, written by a team of
eminent international scholars, is the first to recount the history
of Chinese painting over a span of some three thousand years.
Drawing on museum collections, archives, and archaeological sites
in China-including many resources never before available to Western
scholars-as well as on collections in other countries, the authors
present and analyze the very best examples of Chinese painting:
more than 300 of them are reproduced here in color. Both accessible
to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar, the book
provides the most up-to-date and detailed history of China's
pictorial art available today. In this book the authors rewrite the
history of Chinese art wherever it is found-in caves, temples, or
museum collections. They begin by grounding the Western reader in
Chinese traditions and practices, showing in essence how to look at
a Chinese painting. They then shed light on such topics as the
development of classical and narrative painting, the origins of the
literati tradition, the flowering of landscape painting, and the
ways the traditions of Chinese painting have been carried into the
present day. The book, which concludes with a glossary of
techniques and terms and a list of artists by dynasty, is an
essential resource for all lovers of, or newcomers to, Chinese
painting. Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting is the inaugural
volume in a new series, The Culture & Civilization of China, a
joint publishing venture of Yale University Press and the American
Council of Learned Societies with the China International
Publishing Group in Beijing. The undertaking will ultimately result
in the publication of more than seventy-five volumes on the visual
arts, classical literature, language, and philosophy, as well as
several comprehensive reference volumes. Published in association
with Foreign Languages Press, Beijing
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