essay on landscape painting
By: by Kuo Hsi ; translated by Shio Sakanishi ; a foreword by L. Cranmer-Byng.
Contributors: Sakanishi, Shio, 1896-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Wisdom of the East series
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Landscape painting, Chinese.; Aesthetics -- China.
Notes: Translation of: Lin ch'üan kao chih.

"The essay falls into four sections: Comments on landscapes; The meaning of painting; Rules for painting; A supplement to the Rules for painting ... In the present translation the fourth section has been omitted ... The translation is based on the two Chinese editions of the "Lin Ch'üan Kao Chih": in the Wang Shih Hua Yüan and the Mei Shu Ts'ung Shu; and a short extract in the Hua Hsüeh Hsin Yin." Pref.

Bibliography: p. 20.