How to Read Chinese Paintings. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.How to Read Chinese Paintings

The Chinese often use the expressiondu hua, to read a painting, in connection with their study and appreciation of such works. This volume closely reads thirty-six masterpieces of Chinese painting from the encyclopedic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in order to reveal the major characteristics and themes of this rich pictorial tradition. The book examines multiple layers of meaningstyle, technique, symbolism, past traditions, and the artists personal circumstancesthrough accessible texts and numerous large color details. A dynastic chronology, map, and list of further readings supplement the text.

Spanning a thousand years of Chinese art, these landscapes, flowers, birds, figures, religious subjects, and calligraphies illuminate the main goal of every Chinese artist: to capture not only the outer appearance of a subject but also its inner essence.