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Taipei: Kuo li ku kung po wu yuan (National Palace Museum), Minguo 89 [2000]. Paper covers, 93 pages; chiefly color illustrations; 26 cm. Text in English. Exhibition catalog produced by the National Palace Museum for a special exhibition of Sung dynasty art and culture.
In very good condition with a small nick to the paper at the top of the spine and light bumping and creasing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Includes scholarly essays on the cultural achievements, painting, calligraphy, ceramics, jade, and lacquerware of the Sung period. Contents include: Preface by Chin Hsiao-yi; Introduction by Peter Ch'ang ; The Tao and Art ; Nature as Teacher ; The Beauty of Simplicity ; Life and Art ; Cultural Synthesis ; Essays: I. Li Kung-lin and the Study of Antiquity in the Sung Dynasty by Chang Lin-Sheng ; Blue Magpie and Thorny Shrubs Huang Chu-ts'ai (933-993), Sung Dynasty Hanging Scroll, ink and colors on silk 97 x 53.6 cm by Lin Po-Ting ; The Role of the Government in the Development of Ceramics in the Sung Dynasty by Tsai Mei-fen.