Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, Paperback by Barnhart, Richard M.; ...

by Richard Barnhart, Lang Shaojun, James Cahill, Yang Xin, Nie Chongzheng

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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, Paperback by Barnhart, Richard M.; Xin, Yang; Chongzheng, Nie; Chaill, James; Shaojun, Lang; Hung, Wu, ISBN 0300094477, ISBN-13 9780300094473, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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, th 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

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Year: 2002
• ISBN: 9780300094473
• Condition: Fine

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