China Art: Paintings

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Hearn: How to Read Chinese Paintings. Paperback

How to Read Chinese Paintings. Paperback Maxwell K. Hearn 184 pages, 175 color illustrations, 1 map. 2008. The Chinese often use the expression du hua, “to read a painting,” in connection with their study and appreciation of such works. This volume closely “reads” thirty-six masterpieces of Chinese painting from the encyclopedic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to reveal the major characteristics and themes of this rich pictorial tradition. 9780300141870 0300141874

Hearn: Landscapes Clear and Radiant. The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717). Hardcover

Landscapes Clear and Radiant. The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717). Hardcover Edited by Maxwell K. Hearn 248 pages. 184 b/w and 81 color illustrations, 5 maps. 2008. Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late-17th-century China, played a key role both in reinvigorating past traditions of landscape painting and in establishing the stylistic foundations for the imperially sponsored art of the Qing court. This comprehensive study of the painter’s career features essays examining his life and achievement as well as his masterwork, the monumental scroll depicting the Kangxi emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour 9780300141443 0300141440

Swartz: Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifiting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427-1900) Hardcover

Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifiting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427-1900) Hardcover by Wendy Swartz xii, 296 pages. 2008. This study of the posthumous reputation of a central figure in Chinese literary history, the mechanisms at work in the reception of his works, and the canonization of Tao himself and of particular readings of his works sheds light on the transformation of literature and culture in premodern China. 9780674031845 0674031849

Wang, a.o.: Chinese Calligraphy. Hardcover

Chinese Calligraphy. Hardcover.  ca. 23x31cm Translated and edited by Youfen Wang. 520 pages, 75 b/w + 550 color illustrations. 2008. Chinese calligraphy, with its artistic as well as utilitarian values, has been treasured for its formal beauty for more than three millennia. This lavishly illustrated book brings to English language readers for the first time a full account of calligraphy in China, including its history, theory, and importance in Chinese culture. Representing an unprecedented collaboration among leading Chinese and Western specialists, the book provides a definitive and up-to-date overview of the visual art form most revered in China. 9780300121070 0300121075

Bai Zhi: Flower and Bird Painting. Technique of Chinese Painting. Paperback

Flower-and-Bird Painting. Technique of Chinese Painting. Paperback by Bai Zhi, translated by Huang Zhenhua 83 pages, with a glossary, and 84 text figures in colour or black-white. 1986 962238059x

Barnhart: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. Paperback

Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. Paperback by Richard M. Barnhart (Editor) / Chongzheng, Nie / Shaojun, Lang / Barnhart, Richard M. / Cahill, James / Hung, Wu 402 pages, with many colour and black and white-illustrations. Drawing on museum collections and archaeological sites in China, many previously closed to Westerners, a group of distinguished scholars chronicles the development of Chinese painting over three millennia and presents three hundred examples reproduced in color 0300094477

Cahill: The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China. Hardcover

Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China. Hardcover. ca. 28 x 21 cm Cahill xi, 187 pages, with notes, bibliography, index and with many illustrations. Cahill blasts conventional notions of the elevated and disinterested scholar-artist in Chinese history. He studies the social and commercial context of art from the 16th century onward and the implications of that context for our understanding of traditional Chinese art. The book is based on an expansion of four lectures delivered at Columbia University in 1991. 0231081804

Catalogue Traditional Chinese Paintings. Cloth

Catalogue Traditional Chinese Paintings. Cloth. Ca. 27x37cm 45 plates with traditional chinese paintings. 28 plates with graphic paintings. 16 plates with oil paintings. 8 plates with watercolour gouache paintings. 10 plates with sculptures 1988. Many plates are, full-size, in colour. With biographies. Text generally in chinese Language. Titles of the Paintings and the Lists of them in both English and French Language 7102002300

Catalogue: Painting of Children at Play. Paperback

Painting of Children at Play. 21x30 cm. Paperback Catalogue of the exhibition of paintings of children playing. Text both in chinese and english language. 98 pages, 27 colour plates, many black-white illustrations 9575620224

Catalogue: Special Exhibition of Horse Paintings. Paperback

Special Exhibition of Horse Paintings. Paperback. Ca. 20x30 cm by Po-ting Lin and Hua-chih Chang. The National Palace Museum 120 pages, 65 color plates, including 55 works from the Museum collection, text in Chinese and English 9575620186

Chen Zizhuang: A Blending of Vital Elements - The Paintings of Chen Zizhuang (1913-1976) Cloth

Paintings of Chen Zizhuang (1913-1976). A Blending of Vital Elements. Cloth, 26x36cm Introduction by Wu Fan 171 full-size colour plates, first edition 1989 7119008072 and 0835123316

Chu: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy by Guangdong and Hong Kong Artists from the Tayilou Collection. Hardcover

Chinese Painting and Calligraphy by Guangdong and Hong Kong Artists from the Tayilou Collection. Hradcover, ca. 21x30 cm Christina Chu, editor 224 pages, 100 plates, many in colour, text in Chinese and English. 1992 9622151124

Chu: The Art of Van Lau. Hong Kong Arts Festival: 1987.Paperback

Art of Van Lau. Hong Kong Arts Festival: 1987. Paperback Introduction by Christina K.L. Chu 96 pages, 46 colour plates including some black-white photo's, with a list of exhibits, artist's biography, text in Chinese and English. 1987 9622150780

Fraser: Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960. Hardcover

Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960. Hardcover Sarah E. Fraser xvi, 342 pages, with numerous illustrations. 2003 0804745331

Han Suyin: 82 Contemporary Chinese Painters. Cloth

82 Contemporary Chinese Painters. Cloth, with dustjacket, 26x37cm foreword by Han Suyin 82 photo's and short biographies of each painter, 82 full-size colour illustrations, text in english language, first edition Beijing 1986 8220106250

Harrist: Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China. Hardcover

Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China: Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin. Hardcover. Ca. 19.5x26 cm Robert E. Harrist, Jr. xvii, 164 pages with text, glossary, index, bibliography, notes, 72 plates with black-white illustrations 0691016097

Hoi-chiu Tang: Hong Kong Calligraphy. Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Paperback

Hong Kong Calligraphy. Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Paperback. 21x28 cm. 9622150977 by Hoi-chiu Tang & Yuen-kit Szeto, editors 174 pages, and 86 plates. Contents: Seal Script. Clerical Script. Regular Script. Running Script and Cursive Script. 1990. Presented by the Urban Council, Hong Kong. Organized by the Hong Kong Museum of Art: 10-4-1990 - 10-6-1990 9622150977

Hsü: A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow. Hardcover

Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-Century Yangchow. Hardcover by Ginger Cheng-chi Hsü xiii,  314 pages. With about 50 black-white illustrations. Hsu investigates the production, exchange, and consumption of paintings in late-imperial China, placing the art against its historic backdrop of significant social change. She shows how aesthetic choice is not free from political, economic, and social conditions, and in studying painting as a commodity sheds light on the society in which the commodity was exchanged. She discusses the merchant patrons associated with the Yangchow school of painting and reconstructs the lives of four painters who exemplify the diversity of the school's traditions: Fang Shih-Shu, Huang Shen, Cheng Shieh, and Chin Nung 0804732523

Hyland: Deities, Emperors, Ladies and Literati. Figure Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Paperback

Deities, Emperors, Ladies and Literati. Figure Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Paperback, ca. 21x30 cm by Alice R.M. Hyland 96 pages, with a map, bibliography, 37 black-white and colour plates. 1987 029596555x

Jiangsu Academy: The Selected Works from Jiangsu Academy of Traditional Chinese Painting. Cloth.

Selected Works from Jiangsu Academy of Traditional Chinese Painting. Cloth. ca. 26x36 cm. 114 full-size colour illustrations, short biographies in Chinese, and photo's of all the artists Catalogue is in both Chinese and English language 1987 Jiangsu Academy

Laing: An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth Century Chinese Artists. Hardcover

Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth Century Chinese Artists. Hardcover by Ellen Johnston Laing xxi, 530 pages. Revised edition 1998 0892641266

Ledderose: Ten Thousand Things. Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art. Paperback

Ten Thousand Things. Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art. Paperback by L. Ledderose 266 pages, illustrated throughout, with glossary, bibliography, index. 2001 9780691009575

Liu Ruyang: Selected Paintings of Wang Yanzhang. Cloth

Selected Paintings of Wang Yanzhang. Cloth, ca. 26x36 cm editor: Liu Ruyang 18 pages text in Chinese and English, 75 full-size colour plates, biography. Beijing 1988 710200439--

Lui Wing-fong: Traditional Chinese Rubbing Techniques. Paperback

Traditional Chinese Rubbing Techniques. Paperback by Lui Wing-fong 77 pages, text in Chinese and in English language, richly illustrated, a very nice, informative, booklet. 9627039136

Lust: Chinese Popular Prints. Cloth

Chinese Popular Prints. Cloth John Lust xiv, 352 pages, 28 illustrations. 1996. The book is a first attempt to present the Chinese popular blockprint illustration for display, its culture, history and workshops. It shows how it blossomed out in the urban and rural scenes of recent centuries, finally to succumb to nationalism and revolution 9004104720 Click here for more product information

Monroe: The Art of Mu Xin: The Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes. Hardcover

Art of Mu Xin: The Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes. Hardcover by Alexandra Monroe (Int) 192 pages, with 54 colour plates and 56 bw illustrations. 2002. Mu Xin (b. 1927) is one of the leading expatriate artist-intellectuals of our time. Clearly a formidable figure in the cultural and intellectual history of Chinese modernism, Mu Xin is admired for his unique synthesis of Chinese and Western aesthetic sensibilities. This beautifull catalogue focuses on a group of 33 landscape paintings that Mu Xin painted in 1978–79, in the aftermath of the Great Cultural Revolution. 0300090757

Oertling: Painting and Calligraphy in the Wu-Tsa-Tsu: Conservative Aesthetics in 17th Century China. Hardcover

Painting and Calligraphy in the Wu-Tsa-Tsu: Conservative Aesthetics in 17th Century China. Hardcover. 23x16cm by Oertling, Sewall J. / Hsieh, Chao-Che Wu Tsa Tsu viii, 180 pages with text in English, 37 pages with the Chinese text, with a glossary/index 1997 0892640987

Pu Yen-chio's Paintings. Hardcover

Pu Yen-chio's Paintings. Hardcover, ca. 22x31 cm 191 pages, with 190 colour plates (mainly human beings as subject) Chinese-language edition, titles in Chinese and English language. 1990 9579045240

Qian Songyan, Sun Ji: Longing for Home: Paintings of Qian Songyan. Cloth

Longing for Home: Paintings of Qian Songyan. Cloth, in slipcase, ca. 26x36 cm edited by Sun Ji 16 pages text, 80 full-size colour plates, biography. Beijing 1987 750540069x, 84CE-599-D

Schlieder: Chinesische Bambuspapierherstellung: Ein Bilderalbum aus dem 18. Jahrhundert: Chinesisch gebunden.

Chinesische Bambuspapierherstellung: Ein Bilderalbum aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. 30x37cm, Chinesische Bindung Kommentar: Wolfgang Schlieder, Pan Jixing & Sybille Girmond 34 Seiten mit 24 Farbtafeln und Kommentarteil und 80 Seiten mit 3 Farb- und 112 schwarz-weiss Abbildungen, alles in einem Band. 1993. Das Original des faksimilierten Bilderalbums befindet sich unter der Signatur Bb364 im Deutschen Buch- und Schriftmuseum der Deutschen Bücherei Leipzig 3050023694

Shi Tao. Album. 7 Flowerpaintings. 14-page brocade-cover album

Album: Shi Tao. 7 Flowerpaintings. 14-page brocade-cover album Shi Tao 1630? - 1714? Qing Dynasty 7 pages with flowerpaintings (all woodblock reproductions) 14-page brocade-cover album, printed on rice paper, harmonica-binding Chinese woodblock printing has a long history and deep-rooted traditions. The earliest known example of a print made by this process is the frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra, a picture still extant, printed by a man called Wang Jie, in the 9th year of the reign of Xiantong of the Tang Dynasty (868 AD). In the centuries that followed, with the fast development of science, art and literature, many books were illustrated with beautiful pictures printed from wooden blocks. Shi Tao 8172-998-B Click here for more product information

Solonin, Naumkin: The Bretschneider Albums: 19th Century Paintings of Life in China. Cloth

Bretschneider Albums: 19th Century Paintings of Life in China. Cloth. ca. 25x34 cm by K.Y. Solonin. Vitaly Naumkin, general editor 171 pages, 130 full-colour plates, first edition. 1995 1859640109

Stevens: Sacred Calligraphy of the East. Third edition

Sacred Calligraphy of the East. Third edition, revised and expanded edited by John Stevens and Ron Suresha xii, 207 pages, with 233 illustrations, bibliography, index of proper names. 1995. A new edition of the divinely designed explication of Eastern calligraphy, invoking the rich tradition of Japan, China, India, and Tibet to illustrate both the technique and significance of the characters. The volume provides historical background, reflects on the art of copying religious texts, provides biographies of Zen calligraphers, and supplies practical instructions on materials and methods for students. 9781570621222, 1570621225-28

Sullivan: The Night Entertainments of Han Xizai. A Scroll by Gu Hongzhong. Hardcover