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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting Edited and Mai-mai Sze

The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting By Edited and Mai-mai Sze

The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting by Edited and Mai-mai Sze

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Presents an English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan (original, 1679-1701). This title includes annotations of the texts of instructions, discussions of the fundamentals of painting, notes on the preparation of colors, and chief editorial prefaces.

The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting Summary

The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting: A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition by Edited and Mai-mai Sze

Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan (original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has translated and annotated the texts of instructions, discussions of the fundamentals of painting, notes on the preparation of colors, and chief editorial prefaces.

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The Mustard Seed Garden will always be one of the greatest manuals of the most marvellous painting the world has ever known, and one cannot be too grateful for having it, with its commentary, available in English.--Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society

Table of Contents

*Frontmatter, pg. i*Publisher's Note, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*Traditional Chronology, pg. viii*Introduction, pg. ix*Preface to the Shanghai (1887-88) Edition, pg. 1*Preface to the First (1679) Edition, pg. 11*The Fundamentals of Painting, pg. 15*Book of Trees, pg. 51*Book of Rocks, pg. 127*Book of Jen-wu, pg. 219*Preface to Parts II and III of the First Complete Edition (1701), pg. 317*Book of the Orchid, pg. 321*Book of the Bamboo, pg. 359*Book of the Plum, pg. 397*Book of the Chrysanthemum, pg. 433*Book of Grasses, Insects, and Flowering Plants, pg. 465*Book of Feathers-and-Fur and Flowering Plants, pg. 523*Concluding Notes on the Preparation of Colors, pg. 579*Summary of the Chieh TAUzu Yuan Hua Chuan, pg. 589*Appendix: Analysis of Basic Terms, pg. 609*Index, pg. 623

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GOR003879137
9780691018195
0691018197
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting: A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition by Edited and Mai-mai Sze
Edited and Mai-mai Sze
Bollingen Series
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Princeton University Press
19780321
648
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