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2. How to Read Chinese Paintings
by Maxwell K Hearn
The Chinese often use the expression "du hua," "to read a painting," in connection with their study and appreciation of such works. This volume ... More
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4. Chinese Watercolors
by Josef Hejzler
Traces the history of watercolor painting as an art form characteristic of Chinese thought, and the various schools as reflections of changes in ... More
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5. The Lyrical Resonance Between Chinese Poets and Painters: The Tradition and Poetics of Tihuashi
by Daan Pan
"This is the most comprehensive and insightful study on this topic in any language and the first written in English. In addition to its scholarly ... More
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6. The Chinese on the Art of Painting: Texts by the Painter-Critics, from the Han Through the Ch'ing Dynasties
by Osvald Siren
Originally published: Peiping: Henry Vetch, 1936.
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8. The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting
by Wu Hung
This book contemplates a large problem: what is a traditional Chinese painting? Wu Hung answers this question through a comprehensive analysis of the ... More
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9. Images of Asia
by T C Lai
Critics have been too quick to dismiss the relevance of Chinese painting to modern art. This guide redresses the balance by assessing the history of ... More
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14. Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology
by Julia K Murray
Mirror of Morality takes an interdisciplinary look at an important form of pictorial art produced during two millennia of Chinese imperial rule. ... More
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15. The Lyric Journey: Poetic Painting in China and Japan
Creating paintings with poetic resonances, sometimes with ties to specific lines of poetry, is a practice that began in China in the eleventh century ... More
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20. Along the Riverbank: Paintings from the C. C. Wang Family Collection
Published in conjunction with the September 1999 exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this volume celebrates the promised gift to the museum ... More
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25. The Great Image Has No Form, or on the Nonobject Through Painting
by Francois Jullien, Jane Marie Todd (Translator)
In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art ... More
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