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Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1988. Softcover, 130 pp ; Illustrated throughout, including some color plates. 28 cm.
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Illustrated paper covers have light bumping to edges and light fading to spine and overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Errata sheet laid-in. Published on the occasion of an important exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts documenting a significant private collection of Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese literati painting. Contents include: Foreword by George R. Ellis; Collector's Preface; Author's Acknowledgements; Editor's Preface; Essay: Comments on Literati Painting and its History; Painting of the Ming Dynasty; Literati Painting of the Ch'ing Dynasty; Six Great Masters of Early Ch'ing; The Yu-shan School and Its Founder, Wang Hui; The Lou-tung School and Its Founder, Yuan-ch'i; Ch'ing Individualists and Eccentrics; New Directions of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries; On Women Painters of China; Catalogue: Notes; Artist Chronology; Entries; Perceptions of the Literati from the 19th to the 20th Centuries; Other Paintings in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Hutchinson at the Honolulu Academy of Arts; Endnotes; Select Bibliography