Description

Ascona: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 1974. Hardcover, 56 pages; 32 cm. In good condition/ NO dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold emblem on front cover and lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers and light overall scuffing and soiling with the letters on spine rubbed. Binding tight. Two pages (43 and 46) have moderate spotting along fore-edges (looks like coffee splattered). Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. Not Ex-library. Missing dust jacket. Contents include an introduction, a translation of the Pi-fa-chi text, notes, and an appendix with a biography of Ching Hao. This work offers an important English translation and analysis of Ching Hao's treatise on brush technique, a seminal text in Chinese painting theory.