The Ten Bamboo Studio – A Chinese Masterpiece

Followed by Plates from the Kaempfer Series and Perfect Harmony – Selection of classical Chinese texts

Autore/i: Autori vari

Editore: Crescent Books

presentation and commentary by Joseph Vedlich, translation by Peter J. Tallon.

pp. 124, rich illustrated in colour, New York

This book contains reproductions, with commentaries, of plates from a treatise of Chinese painting first published in 1619 and which always been considered as a classic in China.
These plates have often been reproduced in the West, but very rarely in color; the color transparencies used in our edition were made specially for us by the British Museum.

In addition the book contains some outstandingly beautiful plates from the Kaempfer Series, a famous collection of ancient Chinese lithographic masterpieces, also provided by the British Museum, as well as the complete reproduction of a work entitled Perfect Harmony (Musée Guimet des Arts d’Orient, Paris), which has never been reproduced before.
Most of the plates include a short poem in Chinese characters, for which a translation is of course provided. The reproductions are accompanied by quotations from Confucius, Meng T’Seu, etc.

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