Book1905
An Introduction to the History of Chinese Pictorial Art
Herbert A. Giles
Argues Chinese painting developed its own continuous critical tradition, organised around named schools and canons of past masters, rather than being a variant of Western representational art — written by a British sinologist for a Western audience and dated in places, but a rare early systematic account of the tradition's own critical vocabulary.
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