CHINESE PAINTERS

A CRITICAL STUDY

RAPHAEL PETRUCCI

FRANCES SEAVER

LAURENCE BINYON

BRENTANO'S

PREFACE

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE TECHNIQUE

I. EQUIPMENT OF THE PAINTER

II. REPRESENTATION OF FORMS

III. DIVISION OF SUBJECTS

IV. INSPIRATION

PART TWO THE EVOLUTION OF CHINESE PAINTING

I. ORIGINS

II. BEFORE THE INTERVENTION OF BUDDHISM

III. THE INTERVENTION OF BUDDHISM

IV. THE T'ANG PERIOD SEVENTH TO TENTH CENTURIES

V. THE SUNG PERIOD TENTH TO THIRTEENTH CENTURIES

VI. THE YuAN PERIOD THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES

VII. THE MING PERIOD FOURTEENTH TO SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

VIII. THE CH'ING PERIOD SEVENTEENTH TO TWENTIETH CENTURIES

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF PAINTERS AND PERIODS

Transcriber’s Note: There is one instance each of: Huang Yin-Piau and Huang Yin-Piao, and YÜn Shou-p’ing and YÜn Chou-p’ing so they have been left as printed.