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Review
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Good for reading. poor for lookingBy Philip KoplinCovering a deep array of topics. the essays are fascinating and informative. Unfortunately. the same canrsquo;t be said of the illustrations. and this is a book about visual art. after all. and a rather expensive one. The images are not so much black and white. as washed-out gray and even-more-washed-out gray. to the point where some of them are virtually indecipherable. Most of the chapters have about four such figures. although some have as few as two. including. for example. Peter Sturmanrsquo;s chapter on landscape painting. which has extensive discussions on the significance of Fan Kuanrsquo;s Travelers among Mountains and Streams and Huang Gongwangrsquo;s Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains but illustrates neither. In both cases. the website for the National Palace Museum in Taiwan is cited. with the task of navigating the site in order to find the respective paintings left to the reader. Another painting mentioned by Sturman. Guo Xirsquo;s Early Spring. is cited as being illustrated in another chapter. but the reader who turns to the cited figure in that chapter will find something else there. with the text noting that the painting in question is ldquo;unfortunately not available here.rdquo; which could have been said of most of the art discussed in the book. Buy it for the essays. if you can afford it. but keep your computer or library of books on Chinese art handy if you want to make better sense of what theyrsquo;re talking about.
