These two large volumes, designed by the author and translator (herself a painter), are so beautiful that one touches them with trepidation. The first is a book on Chinese painting by Miss Sze, magnificently illustrated with ten plates reproducing Chinese masterpieces. Miss Sze has supplied a descriptive section on the plates, and an appendix analyzing the pictographs representing the basic terms of Chinese painting. She has also supplied a Traditional Chronology of Painting, a selected bibliography and an excellent index.
Volume Two is the translation of a Manual of Painting written and illustrated by three brothers who were painters, which became the most widely used handbook in China.
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