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This book is divided into three major parts. Each part, and the extensive
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The Chinese on the Art of Painting: Texts by the Painter-Critics, from the Han through the Ch'ing Dynasties
SIREN Osvald [Other titles by this author]
Stock ID: 25028
ISBN: 9780486444284
Dover 2005
215 x 150mm. 288pp
~In one of the first Western systematic studies on more than two millennia of Chinese art, one of the 20th century's premier experts in the field considers a wide range of topics, including the relationship between religion and art, and the various aesthetical philosophies prevalent during the individual dynastic periods.
~>Covers a period spanning the Han (3rd century, B.C.) & Chi'ng (ca. 1911) periods ~>Essential for art lovers and art historians
'The most notable publication (on Chinese art)... Still a good reference source' - Smithsonian Institution.
Republication of the Peiping, 1936 edition. (For this item please quote stock ID 25028)
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