Jason C. Kuo. Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's Late Work.(Book Review)

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Jason C. Kuo. Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's Late Work. Asian Thought and Culture, Volume 35. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. xv, 23. pp. 165195, ISBN 0-8204-4460-x.

This is a study of Huang Pin-hung, an important Chinese artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in which author Jason C. Kuo focuses on the artist's biography, theories and methods of painting, his actual paintings, and legacy. The Introduction lays out the methodologies and scope of the book. The second chapter, "The Persistence of Antiquity: From Calligraphy ...

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