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The British Museum Book of Chinese Art

Arts & Photography

Vainker, Shelagh

Portal, Jane

Farrer, Anne

Michaelson, Carol

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

The Arts of China, Sixth Edition, Revised and Expanded

Internationally renowned and a crucial classroom text, The Arts of China has been revised and expanded by the late Michael Sullivan, with Shelagh Vainker. This new, sixth, edition has an emphasis on Chinese art history, not as an assemblage of related topics, but as a continuous story. With updated attributions and dating throughout and a revised bibliography, it reflects the latest archaeological discoveries, as well as giving increased attention to modern and contemporary art and to calligraphy throughout China’s history, with additional discussions of work by women artists. Visual enhancements include all new maps, and approximately one hundred new color illustrations—bringing the total to well over four hundred color illustrations. Written in the engaging and lucid style that is Sullivan's hallmark, The Arts of China is readily accessible to general readers as well as to serious students of art history. Sullivan's approach remains true to the way the Chinese themselves view art, providing readers with a sense of the sweep of history through China's dynasties. This organizational strategy makes it easy for readers to understand the distinct characteristics of each period of art and to gain a clearer view of how Chinese art has changed in relation to its historical context. With many improvements that bring it fully up to date, The Arts of China will remain the most comprehensive and widely read introduction to the history of Chinese art.

Sullivan, Michæl

University of California Press

A comprehensive survey of the development of ceramics from the Neolithic period to the present day. Assessing the roles pottery has played in each dynasty throughout the history of China, Vainker (curator, Dept. of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum) also discusses its enormous impact on the ceramic industries of the rest of the world, where Chinese porcelain has been admired and collected for centuries. With 100 color and 98 b&amp;w illustrations. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Chinese Pottery and Porcelain: From Prehistory to the Present

George Braziller

Book by Tregear, Mary, Vainker, Shelagh

Art Treasures in China

TREGEAR, Mary

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Silk is one of China’s major contributions to world civilization, the secrets of its cultivation closely guarded for generations. The famous network of trade routes between West and East is still known as the Silk Road. The organization and techniques of Chinese silk production, the uses of the silk produced––both bolts and made-up pieces––and the types and styles of its ornament are celebrated in this richly illustrated and accessible book, the first general survey to be published in English.
Shelagh Vainker traces the cultural history of silk in China from its Neolithic origins to the twentieth century and considers its relationship to the other decorative arts. She traces the role of silk in Chinese history, trade, religion, and literature. Drawing on the most recent archaeological evidence from other, less perishable media such as jades and bronzes as well as paintings, poems, and other texts, Chinese Silk brings together material available until now only in Chinese, supplemented with recent acquisitions by public and private collections in the United States and Europe. The result is a book that illuminates the luxury of silk throughout the ages.

Chinese Silk: A Cultural History

Decorative Arts & Design

Rutgers University Press

Presents the extraordinary works in the 1st gallery in the UK to be devoted permanently to the display of Chinese paintings.

Chinese Paintings in the Ashmoleum Mus. (Vol.II)

Ashmolean Museum

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<li>Renowned and unique approach to crossing Chinese tradition with Western influences</li>
<li>Accompanies an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK, from 28 February to 19 May 2013</li>
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 The new works that Xu Bing is presenting for the first time in this exhibition address the language that these two projects have avoided: the Chinese language, in particular its essential pictographic qualities, and explores the ways in which these have defined Chinese people's relationship with nature, culture and particularly with art. The importance of the written word in Chinese art - as inscription, decoration or calligraphy with brush and ink - is one of the most discussed topics in the history of Chinese art. Xu Bing's interest in it is not connected to the use of characters in artworks, antiques or collectibles but rather lies in the systems within the written language itself, how the visual elements articulate or create a relationship between the language user and the myriad objects around him, and how the repetitious use of those elements builds additional systems, or conventions. It doesn't at first glance look as though it is in English, for the words are configured to look like Chinese characters, in the Square Word Calligraphy that Xu Bing invented in the 1990s, but it is a manifestation of something that runs through all his work and that is the mixing of Western learning with the Chinese philosophical attitude to the natural world.

Landscape Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing

Bing, Xu

The works of the remarkable artist, Fang Zhaoling, who died in 2006 at age 92, are found in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, which was gifted with more than 40 of her works from her family, the University of Oregon museum, where she has lectured, the V & A, the Freer, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the British Museum, and the Ashmolean of the University of Oxford, among others. The artist, who painted in Oxford, is the subject of a breathtaking centenary exhibition of her calligraphy and paintings at the Ashmolean. This catalogue documents her prodigious output -- paintings and calligraphy done in China, Hong Kong, America and the U.K.. From private collections and from the Fang family collection, many have never before been on public display. The catalogue is doubly of interest because of Zhaoling's remarkable personal story, of life's ups and downs and of endurance. The artist received many honors during her lifetime, including the Tokyo Fuji Art Award, awards from the government of Hong Kong and an honorary doctorate degree from Sokya University, Tokyo. Contents: Director's Foreword; Foreword; Fang Zhaoling in England; Catalogue; Chronology; Bibliography.

Fang Zhaoling: 1914-2006

Chen, Yi

Individual Artists

•Contains a stunning array of previously unpublished material, including a new essay on the life and work of Liu Dan•Beautifully bound in cloth with embossed artist signatureLiu Dan is one of twenty-first-century China's leading artists. Born in 1953 in one of China's ancient capitals, Nanjing, he received his school education from the then recently-established People's Republic of China. His academic training was based on Western methods, while at home his grandfather taught him the traditional art of calligraphy. In the early 1980s he moved to America, returning to Beijing in 2005. As a result, he has lived his whole life passing between the discordant worlds of East and West. His familiarity with both sides of the Pacific filters into his art, although they are not necessarily emphasized. For example, the exhibition featured in this book focuses on Dan's response to the Italian Renaissance. It is particularly fitting that Dan should choose the Ashmolean to host his works. The Ashmolean houses one of the world's finest collections of Old Master drawings, and a selection of Italian metalpoint drawings from the collection is included in his exhibition.Liu Dan is also an international artist whose work has been exhibited across China, America and Europe. The museums and galleries that have displayed his work are not limited to those with a history of showing Chinese or Asian art, but also include those that specialize in contemporary art. In the thriving public and private global markets for contemporary Chinese art there are few artists, and still fewer painters, who are active so successfully across so many contexts. Liu Dan is a painter whose equal facility with classical and modern China sets him apart.Contents: Director's Foreword; Introduction; Nanjing; Artistic Lineage; Education and Early Career; Rocks, Rock Paintings and the Literati Tradition; Liu Dan and the Masters 1: Ni Zan (1301-1374); Materials and Techniques; Liu Dan and the Masters 2: Raphael (1483-1520); Rocks and Landscapes; Catalogue; Notes; Chronology; Further Reading; Acknowledgements.

Liu Dan: New Landscapes and Old Masters

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The British Museum Book of Chinese Art

The Arts of China, Sixth Edition, Revised and Expanded

The Arts of China, Sixth Edition, Revised and Expanded

Chinese Pottery and Porcelain: From Prehistory to the Present

Art Treasures in China

Chinese Silk: A Cultural History

Chinese Paintings in the Ashmoleum Mus. (Vol.II)

Landscape Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing

Fang Zhaoling: 1914-2006

Liu Dan: New Landscapes and Old Masters