China Books

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting

BARNHART Richard et al [Other titles by this author]

Stock ID: 4288

ISBN: 9780300094473

Yale University Press 2002

300 x 155mm; 25 b&w + 300 colour plates. 416pp

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 3000 years. 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. Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting is the inaugural volume in a new series, The Culture & Civilization of China. 'This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume account of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the present. For some time to come, it will be an indispensable work for students and the general reader who wishes to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting. Not least among the merits of the book are the numerous illustrations and discussions of important paintings in Chinese museums hitherto little known outside China. This book, which is the first in the Culture & Civilization of China series, augurs well for the success of this significant and far reaching collaborative effort between scholars in and outside China. It is indeed a welcome development' - James Watt. '[A] magnificent book...Accessible to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar, it provides the most up-to-date and detailed history of China's pictorial art available today' - Apollo. 'The most comprehensive survey of Chinese painting yet attempted. Featuring a refreshing selection of lesser-known masterpieces from Chinese collections, the book succeeds admirably in conveying the richness and variety of figure painting, landscape, and flower-and-bird painting through hundreds of images and a highly readable narrative' - Rachel King, Arts and Antiques. (For this item please quote stock ID 4288)

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Art      Painting      Visual Art