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The Chinese on the art of painting: texts by the painter-critics, from the Han through the Ch'ing dynasties

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ISBN	0486444287 (pbk.)
ISBN	9780486444284 (pbk.)
Author	Sirén, Osvald 1879-
Title	The Chinese on the art of painting : texts by the painter-critics, from the Han through the Ch'ing dynasties / [by] Osvald Sirén
Publisher	Mineola, NY : Dover, 2005
Physical desc.	261 p., [7] leaves of plates ; ill. (b&w) ; 22 cm.
Note	Originally published: Peiping [Beijing]: Henri Vetch, 1936.
Bibliography etc.	Includes index
Contents	Introduction. -- From the Han to the T'ang dynasty. -- The Sung period: landscapists and poet-painter; historians and theoreticians. -- Ch'an Buddhism and its relation to painting. -- The Yüan period. -- The Ming period: historical theories and methods of study; aesthetic principles and technical questions. -- The Ch'ing period: new individual departures; traditional principles reasserted.
Subject	Painting, Chinese -- History
Subject	Art criticism -- China

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