Later Chinese Painting & Calligraphy, 1800-1950

	Later Chinese Painting & Calligraphy, 1800-1950
	by Robert Ha Ellsworth	$250.00 At Powells Books on 10-25-2010.

Features ISBN # : 9780394554631 Written by: Ellsworth, Robert Ha Published by: Random House Location: New York : Subject: Calligraphy, chinese Subject: Calligraphy, Chinese, History, 20th century. Subject: Ink painting, Chinese. Copyright: 19861987 Edition Number: 1st ed. Edition Description: Bibliography: v. 1, p. 372-375. Series Volume: 14 Date of Publication: 1987 Cover: HARDCOVER Illustrations: Yes # of Pages: 3 v. Western critics and historians of Chinese painting had long looked on the 19th and early 20th centuries as a sort of dead zone in the development of Chinese art, attributing the work of more modern Chinese masters to a burst of creativity inspired by the "eccentrics" of the 17th and 18th centuries. Maverick collector Robert H. Ellsworth revealed the error of this assumption when he acquired a number of brilliant 19th-century Chinese paintings in the 1960s. What he discerned was a period of enormous change and innovation, influenced both by a major shift in Chinese art toward calligraphy and seals (prompting more brutal, energetic brushwork) and by increasing exposure to the West; clearly, Ellsworth argues, these 19th-century paintings were the true precedents for modern Chinese art. This three-volume catalog is a singular exploration of this unjustly overlooked era and is a superb example of the bookbinder's art in its own right, originally priced at $850 and selling now for well over $1,000 from some rare book dealers. It incredibly beautiful reproduces all 471 paintings Ellsworth donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as of 1987, along with hundreds of images of calligraphic scrolls and fans. The index volume contains commentaries and biographies of 300 artists and calligraphers, along with transliterations into Chinese script of every inscription and seal. The three volumes are bound in silk, with embossed gold stamping, petite Chinese calligraphic scrolls applied to the covers, and gilt-edged pages, all enclosed in a similarly decorated clamshell case in brown silk. Back To Top

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