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Art Revolution in Modern China-The Lingnan School
of painting 1906-1951 |
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By Prof. Ralph
Croizier
This is a book
about art, but not just about art. The subject is an art movement with
specific regional origins that achieved national significance in the
context of the political and cultural revolutions of early
twentieth-century China. It is about a group of painters who attempted to
produce a new national art that would be modern and still distinctively
Chinese. It is about the interplay between art and politics in a period of
cultural crisis and social change.More
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Chinese Brush Painting by James
Tan and his Students |
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12"x 12" book full colour with more than 70 pcs of art work by James Tan
and his students in Singapore. Sold Out |
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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Mai-Mai Sze (Editor) |
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This is the first English
translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan"
(original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has translated the texts of
instructions, discussions of the fundamentals of painting, notes on the
preparation of colors, and chief editorial prefaces. This book is THE
classic manual of traditional Chinese painting. It is a must for the
library of any fan of Chinese brush painting..........................more
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The Three Perfections: Chinese Painting, Poetry &
Calligraphy |
by Michael Sullivan
What do the Chinese write on their paintings? Why do they write on them?
In this newly revised volume--now illustrated in color - Michael Sullivan
provides a lucid and engaging analysis of the intimate relationships among
painting, poetry, and calligraphy in Chinese culture. The fundamental
unity of writing and painting is shown to be an ancient, though still
valid, concept in China. Twenty-six luminous reproductions of celebrated
works of art illustrate key aspects of this superb union of literature and
the visual arts ...
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Masterpieces of Chinese Art |
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Five stars by Amazon Readers ... This wonderful overview of Chinese art
takes the reader on a delightful trip through 6000
years of history. Some 100 beautiful full-color photographs, some of
them filling the entire oversized page, are used to illustrate this
fascinating journey. The text is insightful and well-written and should
appeal even to readers who
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Art in China (Oxford History of Art) |
by Craig Clunas
China boasts a history of art spanning 5,000 years and embracing a wide
diversity of images and objects--from jade tablets, painted silk hand
scrolls and fans to ink and lacquer painting, porcelain-ware, sculpture,
and calligraphy. But this rich tradition has not, until now, been fully
appreciated in the West where scholars have focused their attention on
sculpture, while largely ignoring those art forms most highly prized by
the Chinese themselves, such as calligraphy ....
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Chinese Art and Culture |
by Robert L. Thorp
Lucid, authoritative, written with verve by two respected American
scholars, this generously illustrated work provides an introduction to
more than 7,000 years of Chinese art - from the pottery-making and
jade-carving cultures of the Neolithic Age to contemporary Chinese artists
working...
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