Guide-Posts to Chinese Painting
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. Hardcover. Green cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and image. xii + 221 pp. with bw frontis and 20 additional bw plates. Contents very clean and crisp. Very light general cover wear but no bumps, etc. Ex-lib. copy with bookplate from The Pennsylvania Museum (the name given in 1929 to the current Philadelphia Museum of Art). Item #158411
Contents include: Why the Chinese painter painted what he did -- Social and religious background to Chinese art -- The history of China as it influenced the art -- Great painters and their work -- Calligraphy and its relation to painting -- Figure-painting: its ideals and significance -- Figure-painting (continued): religous -- Flowers, birds, and animals -- Landscape-painting: its technique and philosophy -- The collector and his problem -- and Chinese influence on the culture of the West.
OCLC: 1467753
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