Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting - Yale University Press 1997 Hardcover Art Book | Perfect for Art Collectors, History Enthusiasts & Home Decor

Xi, Yang, et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 12 1/4" x 9 1/4", [xiv] 402 pp.

ISBN: 0300070136

Red cloth over board, stamped gilt lettering to spine, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block, dust jacket and endpapers. Very Good white pictorial dust jacket, featuring wrap around of Zhao Mengfu's 1296 handscroll "Mounted Official," black, red, and white lettering to front, back, spine, and interior flaps, some wear to edges, tips, head, and tail, light soiling to spine and back panel, black pen writing to back panel, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar-sleeve. [xiv] 402 pp., replete with full-color images. Includes Chronology and Reign Periods, Map of China, seven sections: "Approaches to Chinese Painting" with Part 1 & 2, "The Origins of Chinese Painting (Paleolithic Period to Tang Dynasty)," "The Five Dynasties and the Song Period (907-1279)," "The Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)," "The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)," "The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)," "Traditional Chinese Painting in the Twentieth Century," Notes, Glossary, Artists by Period, Further Readings, List of Contributors, and Index. Contributions from: Yang Xin, Richard M. Barnhart, Nie Chongzheng, James Cahill, Lang Shaojun, and Wu Hung. From inside dust jacket: "Drawing on museum collections, archives, and archaeological sites in China--including many resources never before available to Western scholars--as well as on collections in other countries, the authors present and analyze the very best examples of Chinese painting: more than 300 of them are reproduced here in color."