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)

裱褙，古代又稱作「裝池」，是中國用來美化和保護書畫的一項專門技藝。早在紀元前三世紀的戰國時代，即已略具卷軸形式的雛型，但裝池技術真正發展純熟，則必須晚至唐朝以後。北宋晚期，宮廷裡甚至設置專司裱褙的機構，並訂定書畫裝裱規格，影響所及，到明、清兩代，猶持續被沿用。本「書畫裝池之美」圖錄的設計，圖版均以全幅形式來印刷，有別於只印畫心的編排方式。陳述重點，亦聚焦於解析手卷、立軸、冊頁、成扇等不同裝池形式的特色。書末附錄，並羅列裝裱書畫常用的工具與材料，用供參考。 The mounting, or backing, not only preserves a work of painting or calligraphy, it can also enhance its beauty. As early as the third century BCE, du...(展开全部)

An illustrated and comprehensive account of the history of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It should be of interest to students and general readers who wish to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting.

This book is a rare feat: seldom is an art history--much less an ambitious, 400-page chronicle of one of the great cultural achievements of the last three millennia--as much a delight for the amateur lover of art as it is indispensable for the student of the field. Written by three eminent specialists in the United States and three in China, Three Thousand Years of Chinese Pain...(展开全部)

An illustrated and comprehensive account of the history of Chinese painting from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It should be of interest to students and general readers who wish to gain an in-depth knowledge of Chinese painting.

This book presents a survey of Chinese painting from the eighth to the 14th century, a period during which the nature of China's pictorial art changed dramatically. Illustrated by works in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the author begins by describing the advent toward the end of the Bronze Age of figural representation in Chinese art, and next trac...(展开全部)

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)

This richly illustrated book provides an anthology and summation of the work of one of the world’s leading historians of Chinese painting and calligraphy. Wen Fong helped create the field of East Asian art history during a distinguished five-decade career at Princeton University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Few if any writers in English have such a broad knowledge of the...(展开全部)

This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing.