What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them d...(展开全部)

喜龙仁（Osvald Siren, 1879—1966），瑞典美术史家，20世纪欧美中国艺术史研究的引路人，首届弗利尔奖章获得者，瑞典斯德哥尔摩大学艺术史教授。喜龙仁起初专攻意大利文艺复兴艺术，后转向中国艺术研究，其研究兴趣无所不包，涉及中国建筑、雕塑、园林、绘画、城市规划等多个领域。他还是欧美多家重要博物馆和多位重要藏家的中国艺术收藏顾问。喜龙仁一生著述极丰，其巅峰之作便是出版于20世纪50年代的《中国绘画：大师和原理》。

Chinese ink painters of the Republican period (1911–1949) creatively engaged with a range of art forms in addition to ink, such as oil painting, drawing, photography, and woodblock prints. They transformed their medium of choice in innovative ways, reinterpreting both its history and its theoretical foundations. Juliane Noth offers a new understanding of these compelling experi...(展开全部)

Words and Images contains twenty-three essays based on papers presented at an international symposium held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 1985 to celebrate the gifts and promised gifts of Chinese calligraphy and painting from John M. Crawford, Jr. In these essays senior scholars from Asia and America express a wide range of perspectives on an issue that is central to ...(展开全部)

The Chinese way of appreciating a painting is often expressed by the words du hua," to read a painting." How does one do that? Because art is a visual lanuage, words alone cannot adequately convey its expressive dimension. How to read Chinese Paintings seeks to visually analyze thirty-six paintings and calligraphies from the encyclopedic collection of the Metripolitan Museum of...(展开全部)