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Book

Author:

Title:

The Mustard Seed Garden manual of painting = Jie zi yuan hua zhuan, 1679-1701 : a facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai edition with the text translated from the Chinese and edited by Mai-mai Sze.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

xvii, 624 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks ; 427

Bollingen series

Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks ; 427.

Bollingen series.

Subjects:

Painting -- Technique.

Painting, Chinese.

Painters -- China.

Other Author:

Sze, Mai-mai.

Li, Yu, 1611-1680?

Other Title:

Jie zi yuan hua zhuan. English & Chinese

Notes:

Although sometimes attributed to Li Yu, the authors are three Wang brothers: Wang Gai, general editor and sole author of pt. 1, and Wang Shih and Wang Nieh, who assisted with the remainder. Cf. Introd.

Includes original 1679 Chinese t.p.

This facsim. and translation was originally issued as v. 2 of: The tao of painting / Mai-Mai Sze. 1956.

Includes index.

Contents:

Traditional chronology -- Note on title page of 1679 edition -- Preface to the Shanghai (1887-88) edition -- Preface to the first (1679) edition -- The fundamentals of painting -- Book of trees -- Book of rocks -- Book Jên-wu -- Preface to the complete edition of 1701 -- Book of the orchid -- Book of the bamboo -- Book of the plum -- Book of the chrysanthemum -- Book of grasses, insects, and flowering plants -- Book of feathers-and-fur and flowering plants -- Concluding notes on the preparation of colors -- Summary of the Chieh Tzu Yuan hua chuan -- Appendix: analysis of basic terms.

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Publisher description

LCCN:

81466502

ISBN:

9780691018195

0691018197 (pbk.)

Other Number:

7554924

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

41170

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1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

751.4251 Wang