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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting : A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition / Mai-mai Sze.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Gai, active 1677-1705.
- Series:
- Bollingen series.
- Bollingen Series (General) ; 197
- Standardized Title:
- Chieh tzu yüan hua chuan. English & Chinese
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painters--China.
- Painters.
- Painting, Chinese.
- Painting--Technique.
- Painting.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (645 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yüan 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Publisher's Note
- Contents
- Traditional Chronology
- Introduction
- Preface to the Shanghai (1887-88) Edition
- Part I
- Preface to the First (1679) Edition
- The Fundamentals of Painting
- Book of Trees
- Book of Rocks
- Book of Jên-wu
- Part II
- Preface to Parts II and III of the First Complete Edition (1701)
- Book of the Orchid
- Book of the Bamboo
- Book of the Plum
- Book of the Chrysanthemum
- Part III
- Book of Grasses, Insects, and Flowering Plants
- Book of Feathers-and-Fur and Flowering Plants
- Concluding Notes on the Preparation of Colors
- Summary of the Chieh Τzŭ Yüan Hua Chuan
- Appendix: Analysis of Basic Terms
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- This facsim. and translation was originally issued as v. 2 of: The tao of painting / Mai-Mai Sze. 1956.
- Includes original 1679 Chinese t.p.
- Although sometimes attributed to Li Yü, the authors are three Wang brothers: Wang Kai, general editor and sole author of pt. 1, and Wang Shih and Wang Nieh, who assisted with the remainder. Cf. Introd.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780691099408
- 0691099405
- 9781400866830
- 1400866839
- OCLC:
- 903954137
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