Three thousand years of Chinese painting
By: Richard M. Barnhart ... [et al.].
Contributors: Barnhart, Richard M., 1934-
Series: The culture & civilization of China
Publisher: Yale University Press; Foreign Languages Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven; Beijing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Painting, Chinese
Description: From Neolithic painted petroglyphs, early paintings on silk, and landscapes by twelfth-century literati to the traditional handscrolls being produced today, Chinese painting has always had the power to enthrall. This magnificent book, written by a team of eminent international scholars, is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting over a span of some three thousand years.

Drawing on museum collections, archives, and archaeological sites in China - including many resources never before available to Western scholars - as well as on collections in other countries, the authors present and analyze the very best examples of Chinese painting: more than 300 of them are reproduced here in color. Both accessible to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar, the book provides the most up-to-date and detailed history of China's pictorial art available today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Published simultaneously in Chinese.