When is a landscape more than a landscape? This is a richly illustrated study of an important genre of Ming-dynasty Chinese painting in which landscapes are actually disguised portraits that celebrate an individual and his achievements, ambitions, and tastes in an open effort to win recognition, support, and social status. In this unique study, Anne de Coursey Clapp presents a ...(展开全部)

苏立文（MichaelSullivan，1916～2013.09.28），字迈珂，1916年出生于加拿大蒙特利尔，幼年随父母移居英国。英国艺术史家，汉学家，牛津大学荣休院士。苏立文是20世纪第一个系统地向西方世界介绍中国现代美术的西方人，是当代西方中国现代美术史研究的学术泰斗，被称为“20世纪美术领域的马可·波罗”。英国当地时间2013年9月28日，迈克尔·苏立文先生去世，享年97岁。

苏立文（MichaelSullivan，1916～2013.09.28），字迈珂，1916年出生于加拿大蒙特利尔，幼年随父母移居英国。英国艺术史家，汉学家，牛津大学荣休院士。苏立文是20世纪第一个系统地向西方世界介绍中国现代美术的西方人，是当代西方中国现代美术史研究的学术泰斗，被称为“20世纪美术领域的马可·波罗”。英国当地时间2013年9月28日，迈克尔·苏立文先生去世，享年97岁。

"In an age when art history is too much dominated by proponents of theoretical, non-visual approaches to the works of art, really good examples of visual approaches are in short supply, and welcome. "The Landscape Painting of China" is a valuable visual/art-historical treatment of early Chinese painting, through the mid-seventeenth century and the Ming dynasty."--James Cahill, ...(展开全部)

"In an age when art history is too much dominated by proponents of theoretical, non-visual approaches to the works of art, really good examples of visual approaches are in short supply, and welcome. "The Landscape Painting of China" is a valuable visual/art-historical treatment of early Chinese painting, through the mid-seventeenth century and the Ming dynasty."--James Cahill, ...(展开全部)

v. 1. The Birth of Landscape Painting in China: Pictorical Art and the Attitude Toward Nature in Antiquity, The Han Dynasty, The Six Dynasties; v. 2. Chinese landscape painting: The Sui and T'ang Dynasties.

This book examines the work of one of the most famous Chinese artists of all time. In this study, the first full-length work on Shitao in a Western language, Jonathan Hay provides a theoretically sophisticated analysis of this artist by undertaking a social history of his achievement. By focusing on different social, political, biographical, economic, religious and aesthetic is...(展开全部)

This book examines the work of one of the most famous Chinese artists of all time. In this study, the first full-length work on Shitao in a Western language, Jonathan Hay provides a theoretically sophisticated analysis of this artist by undertaking a social history of his achievement. By focusing on different social, political, biographical, economic, religious and aesthetic is...(展开全部)

This comprehensive overview of painting in China’s last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911), fills a need in the field of East Asian art history and will be welcomed by students and collectors. Claudia Brown provides a thorough chronological account of painting in the Qing period, from the tumultuous Ming–Qing transition to the end of imperial rule, while examining major influences a...(展开全部)