A Short History of Chinese Art
University of California | 1967 | English | 362 pages | PDF | 61.6 MB

This book preserves the continuous narrative framework of the authors earlier Introduction to Chinese Art. Only a broadly historical approach, he feels, one which combines vertical continuity down the ages with horizontal wholeness across each period, makes it possible for the reader, perhaps approaching Chinese art for the first time, to get a glimpse of the whole pattern. But while the shape of the book remains unchanged the text has been extensively revised and re-written to keep it as far as possible abreast of recent discoveries and research, and many of the illustrations are new. Architecture, sculpture, painting and calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics and the decorative arts are all discussed and related to one another and to the evolving pattern of Chinese thought and social life.