Chinese Landscape Painting (1954 First Edition) by Sherman E. Lee

Description: Condition Continued: And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. I've had the dust jacket in a fitted protective cover for as long as I've owned the book. It doesn't have much wear, only a bit of loss at both spine ends and a little bit at the front top right-hand corner. However, it has suffered from some foxing along the spine and just adjacent to that on the front. The white rear cover has some darkened areas, doesn't appear to be soiling. No foxing there. The flaps look close to perfect. No soiling or foxing, a vague crease at the bottom corner of the front flap. The jacket is NOT clipped. It was not published with a price. The Cleveland Museum Of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1954. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. This is a very rare dust jacketed First Edition (NAP, Errata sheet with 13 corrections). 142 illustrations. 169 pages. This was Sherman E. Lee's first book. Lee was an American academic, writer, art historian and expert on Asian art whose "sensational acquisitions transformed the Cleveland Museum of Art in all fields." In 1952, Lee began work at the Cleveland Museum of Art as Chief Curator of Oriental Art. He was named Director in 1958, and served in this capacity until 1983. He advised Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller on building their renowned collection of Asian art. From the front dust jacket flap: 'The greatest achievements and most original contributions of the Chinese painters were the representation of landscape. While landscape elements appeared as early as the fourth century B.C., there was a long development of some fourteen centuries before the emergence of a fully developed and completely expressive landscape style. From this time on landscape was the major category in the subject matter of the Chinese painters in this highly sophisticated art continued through a variety of creative styles until the general exhaustion of the nineteenth century. The first survey of its kind in English is based on the loan exhibition of Chinese Landscape Painting at The Cleveland Museum of Art (November- December, 1954) and Is Illustrated with the over one-hundred paintings shown in that exhibition. Most of the illustrative material is from American collections, and documents the remarkable growth of our holdings in the realm of Chinese landscape painting to a position second only to China itself. Many of the paintings in this book are illustrated for the first time. The text and catalog provide the background to the illustrations in the form of a general survey of the origins and stylistic development of Chinese landscape painting and a detailed transcription of much of the documentary information to be found on the paintings and their attached inscriptions and seals. Comparisons have been indicated, by text and illustration, with European old master drawings, modern masters, and with the typography of China.'

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