Author: HEARN, MAXWELL K.
Title: Cultivated Landscapes: Chinese Paintings from the Collection of Marie-HéLène and Guy Weill
Description: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2007, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9780300097825). Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text.; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 24 x 31.5 cm.; 1.6 Kg.; 224 pages with 175 illustrations, of which 77 in colour. Used with minor signs of wear on the exterior of the dust jacket and on the interior. Very good condition overall.; Catalogue from the exhibition "Cultivated Landscapes: Reflections of Nature in Chinese Painting with selections from the Collection of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill" held at the Metropolitan Museum f Art. New York, September 10, 2002 - February 9, 2003.; This catalogue presents twelve superb works by leading fifteenth- and sixteenth-century artists of the Wu school, centered in the cosmopolitan city of Suzhou, by early Qing loyalist, Orthodox school, and individualist painters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and by two twentieth-century masters. Richly illustrated and fully documented, each work is analyzed to elucidate its significance within its time, place, and the artist's oeuvre. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

Keywords: 9780300097825 china,chinese painting,landscape painting Asian Art Chinese Art


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