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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting - (Bollingen) Annotated by Mai-Mai Sze (Paperback)

Name: The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting - (Bollingen) Annotated by Mai-Mai Sze (Paperback)
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Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yüan Hua Chuan" (original, 1679-1701).
Author(s): Mai-Mai Sze
648 Pages
Art, Techniques
Series Name: Bollingen

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Book Synopsis

Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yüan Hua Chuan" (original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has translated and annotated the texts of instructions, discussions of the fundamentals of painting, notes on the preparation of colors, and chief editorial prefaces.

Review Quotes

"The Mustard Seed Garden will always be one of the greatest manuals of the most marvellous painting the world has ever known, and one cannot be too grateful for having it, with its commentary, available in English."-- "Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society"

Dimensions (Overall): 8.43 Inches (H) x 8.57 Inches (W) x 1.35 Inches (D)

Weight: 2.5 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 648

Genre: Art

Sub-Genre: Techniques

Series Title: Bollingen

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Theme: Watercolor Painting

Format: Paperback

Author: Mai-Mai Sze

Language: English

Street Date: March 21, 1978

TCIN: 83595269

UPC: 9780691018195

Item Number (DPCI): 247-80-4675

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.35 inches length x 8.57 inches width x 8.43 inches height

Estimated ship weight: 2.5 pounds

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