Mi Fu on Ink-stones
by van Gulik, Robert H
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 9745240834
- ISBN 13
- 9789745240834
- Seller
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Trinity TB, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2006. The great Song Dynasty poet and artist, Mi Fu (1051-1107), wrote treatises on painting and calligraphy, in addition to the present work on inkstones, translated here by the eminent Dutch diplomat and Sinologist, Dr. R H van Gulik. In the case of the first two works, the subjects of Mi Fu's deliberations have long since disappeared. There remain, however, numerous surviving examples of inkstones from the Song and earlier dynasties, enabling us to compare Mi Fu's words with the actual objects he describes. The importance of the inkstone as an essential tool of the Chinese literati and thus the importance of our understanding its nature to our overall comprehension of Chinese brushwork, is but one aspect of the present work. The inkstone is, in addition to a tool, a work of art in its own right, combining the skill and wit of the sculptor with the ancient Chinese tradition of appreciation of beautiful stones. In Mi Fu on Inkstones, Dr van Gulik provides not only a guide to the connoisseurship of this essential treasure of the scholar's studio, but also an illuminating glimpse into the mind of this brilliant eleventh century artist. (First edition Peking, 1938, now impossible to obtain.). xii, 71 pp., 2 colour, 11 b&w illustrations, map, index, 245 x 175. The original Chinese text of Mi Fu's Yen Shih is also reproduced, alongside the English translation. . Second edition. Hard bound. New/New. 24.5 x 17.5 cm.
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- Bookseller
- Orchid Press (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000563
- Title
- Mi Fu on Ink-stones
- Author
- van Gulik, Robert H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- Second edition
- ISBN 10
- 9745240834
- ISBN 13
- 9789745240834
- Publisher
- Orchid Press
- Place of Publication
- Bangkok
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 24.5 x 17.5 cm
- Keywords
- inkstone, Chinese, art, painting, calligraphy, scholar, studio
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art Asia; Culture Asia; China;
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Orchid Press
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Trinity TB, Newfoundland
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