Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: A Pictoral Survey

About this book

Brush and ink the required path to the "three perfections" of Chinese art painting calligraphy poetry. The complex path to Chinese art through painting and calligraphy(and ultimately poetry) is revealed through a lucidly described tour of the John M. Crawford Jr. collection of Chinese visual art conducted by the scholar collector and calligrapher Wan-go Weng. In 109 photographs of 69 works of art Chinese Painting and Calligraphy surveys the living world of Chinese art and artists from the Northern Sung dynasty (960-1127) to the early Ching (1644-1911).