From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: July 1, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Until very recently, Chinese art history encompassed few monographic treatments of individual artists, despite the fact that such works have traditionally served as the basic unit of art-historical analysis in many other areas of the discipline. Over the past decade, however, a number of "life and works" volumes devoted to specific Chinese painters (e.g., Tang Yin, Zhu Da, Hongren, Dong Qichang) have appeared, as have several volumes that focus even more particularly on a single pictorial project or program (e.g., the Wu Liang shrine, Li Gonglin's "Classic of Filial Piety," and Ma ...