"What do the Chinese write on their paintings? Why do they write on them? In this newly revised volume -- now illustrated in color -- Michael Sullivan provides a lucid and engaging analysis of the intimate relationships among painting, poetry, and calligraphy in Chinese culture." "As early as the ninth century, art historians recognized that in China "writing and painting have different names but a common body." The fundamental unity of writing and painting is shown to be an ancient, though still valid, concept in China. The evolution of this basic idea is traced through the ages and its survival documented to the present. Twenty-six luminous reproductions of celebrated works of art illustrate key aspects of this union of literature and the visual arts. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
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