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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Chinese Paintings Explained,
By Renee Thorpe (Karangasem, Bali) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Old Masters Repainted: Wu Zhen (1280-1354) Prime Objects and Accretions (Hardcover)
A highly readable but scholarly book. Should not be a reader's first book about Chinese art, but is very useful for, say, college art history at any level. In what I found to be the most useful chapter, "Significant Criteria for Period Style," Stanley-Baker manages to isolate exactly what attributes belong to Song, Yuan, and Ming paintings. Her observant writings that link the physical with the spiritual (e.g. breathing space in relation to mountains in landscape paintings) are wonderful in their simplicity. Her essays will certainly enrich the connoiseur's love of Chinese art. I see this book as indispensable to the student of Chinese art and highly recommended to the amateur of same. |
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Old Masters Repainted: Wu Zhen (1280-1354) Prime Objects and Accretions by Joan Stanley-Baker (Hardcover - May 30, 1995)
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