Author : Adrian Cheng
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1614288844
While readers will come away from Chinese Art with a nuanced understanding of Chinese culture, the volume is also a work of art in its own right—a must-have collectible for any devotee of Chinese art and culture. Assouline’s Ultimate Collection is an homage to the art of luxury bookmaking—the oversized volume is hand-bound using traditional techniques, with several of the plates hand-tipped on art-quality paper and housed in a luxury silk clamshell.
Author : Ning Yeh
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2022-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780961830588
A second addition, also known as Ning Yeh's "Gold Edition" updates his original guide of step-by-step instructions for Chinese Brush Painting.
Author : Charles Alfred Speed Williams
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486233727
Describes historical, legendary, and supernatural persons, animals, and objects that recur as symbols in Oriental art and literature
Author : Patricia Bjaaland Welch
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 1462906893
With over 630 striking color photos and illustrations, this Chinese art guide focuses on the rich tapestry of symbolism which makes up the basis of traditional Chinese art. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery includes detailed commentary and historical background information for the images that continuously reappear in the arts of China, including specific plants and animals, religious beings, mortals and inanimate objects. The book thoroughly illuminates the origins, common usages and diverse applications of popular Chinese symbols in a tone that is both engaging and authoritative. Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery is an essential reference for collectors, museum-goers, guides, students and anyone else with a serious interest in the culture and history of China.
Author : Kunfeng Huang
Publisher : Shanghai Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1938368711
Over thousands of years, the art of Chinese painting has evolved, while also staying loyal to its traditional roots. Despite various schools of thought, styles and techniques, three primary categories have emerged across the discipline: landscape, figure and bird-and-flower. Using fine ink and water brush strokes on paper or silk, Chinese artists have developed a unique style—one that's famous throughout the world.This book highlights 50 Chinese paintings, pulled from museum collections in China and around the world, including British Museum (London), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas), Osaka City Museum of Art (Osaka), Palace Museum (Beijing), Palace Museum (Taibei) and Shanghai Museum. The paintings shown are representative of the categories, historical periods and styles of this artistic tradition.Detailed professional interpretations and notes allow readers to learn more about the pieces themselves, the artists and the context in which they were created. Plus, photo enlargements of key details get readers up close to these masterpieces.As one of the world's oldest continuous art forms, Chinese painting has a truly special history. This comprehensive guide allows modern readers to travel through time, experiencing important moments in Chinese history and society through beautiful pieces of artwork.
Author : Ming Deng
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Painting, Chinese
ISBN :
An introduction to a millennium's worth of Chinese paintings features 400 classical works by more than 240 artists that represent their different historical periods, in a volume that offers insight into how Chinese art uniquely reflects cultural perspectives and the natural world.
Author : Pauline Cherrett
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780806955094
“You’ll want to keep this book close to your painting table....Guides you from the beginning with information on the materials you need and the basic steps involved.”—Decorative Artist’s Workbook. “With the right instructions and a little time you can get very good results, and that’s what this book provides—step-by-step, manageable little steps to the goal.”—The Crafter’s Bookshelf.
Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 1996-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1861898428
In the first exploration of Chinese paintings as both material products and pictorial representations, The Double Screen shows how the collaboration and tension between material form and image gives life to a painting. A Chinese painting is often reduced to the image it bears; its material form is dismissed; its intimate connection with social activities and cultural conventions neglected. A screen occupies a space and divides it, supplies an ideal surface for painting, and has been a favorite pictorial image in Chinese art since antiquity. Wu Hung undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the screen, which can be an object, an art medium, a pictorial motif, or all three at once. With its diverse roles, the screen has provided Chinese painters with endless opportunities to reinvent their art. The Double Screen provides a powerful non-Western perspective on issues from portraiture and pictorial narrative to voyeurism, masquerade, and political rhetoric. It will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of art and Asian studies.
Author : Foster, Viv
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780764159114
Demonstrates the techniques used in the art of Chinese brush painting and discusses tools, color-mixing, special effects, trouble-shooting, Chinese graphic style, and color composition.
Author : Susan Bush
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9888139703
This classic work, first published in 1971, explores the transition in painting styles from the late Sung period to the art of Yuan dynasty literati. Building on the pioneering work of Oswald Siren and James Cahill, Susan Bush’s investigations of painting done under the Chin dynasty confirmed the dominance of scholar-artists in the north and their gradual development of scholarly painting traditions, and a related study of Northern Sung writings showed that their theory was shaped as much by the views of their social class as by their artistic aims. Bush’s perspective on Sung scholars’ art and theory helps explain the emergence of literati painting as the main artistic tradition in Yuan times. Social history thus served to supplement an understanding of the evolution of artistic styles.
