Chinese painting & calligraphy reading list

Acker, W. R. B.: Some T'ang and Pre-T'ang Texts on Chinese Painting, 2 vols (Leiden, 1954/R 1974) (incl. important primary source mat)

Barnhart, R. M., ed.; Painters of the Great Ming; The Imperial Court and the Zhe School (Dallas, 1993)

Bartholomew, T.: Botanical Puns in Chinese Art from the Collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Orientations, xvi/9 (Sept 1985), pp. 18-34

Bickford, M.: Ink Plum: The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre (Cambridge, 1996)

Billeter, J. F.: The Chinese Art of Writing (New York, 1990)

Bones of Jade, Soul of Ice: The Flowering Plum in Chinese Art (exh. cat. by M. Bickford and others, New Haven, Yale U.A.G.; St Louis, A. Mus.; 1985) (extensive bibliog.)

Brinker, H.: Zen in the Art of Painting (London and New York, 1987)

Brushstrokes: Styles and Techniques of Chinese Painting (exh. cat. by So Kam Ng, San Francisco, CA, Asian A. Mus.; Santa Barbara, CA, Mus. A.; 1992-3

Bush, S. and Shih Hsio-yen: Early Chinese Texts on Painting (Cambridge, MA, 1985)

Bush, S.: The Chinese Literati on Painting: Su Shih (1037-1101) to Tung Ch'ich'ang (1555-1636) (Cambridge, MA, 1970)

Cahill, J. : Parting at the Shore: Chinese Painting of the Early and Middle Ming Dynasty, 1368-1580 (New York, 1978)

Cahill, J.: Confucian Elements in the Theory of Painting, The Confucian Persuasion, ed. A. Wright (Stanford, 1966), pp. 115-40

Cahill, J.: The Six Laws and How to Read Them, A. Orient., iv (1961), pp. 132-63

Cahill, J.: Chinese Painting (Geneva and New York, 1960)

Cahill, J.: Hills beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368 (New York, 1976)

Cahill, J.: The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth Century Chinese Painting (Cambridge, MA, 1982)

Cahill, J.: The Distant Mountains: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Dynasty, 1570-1644 (New York, 1982)

Cahill, J.: The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China (New York, 1994)

Chang, I. and Zhang, Y.: Brushed Voices: Calligraphy in Contemporary China (Washington, D.C., 1998)

Chang, L. L. and Miller P.: Four Thousand Years of Chinese Calligraphy (Chicago and London, 1990)

Chinese Calligraphy (exh. cat. by Tseng Yu-ho Ecke, Philadelphia, PA, Mus. A., 1971)

Chinese Figure Painting (exh. cat. by T. Lawton, Washington, DC, Freer, 1973)

Chou, J. H. and Brown C.: The Elegant Brush: Chinese Painting Under the Qianlong Emperor, 1735-1795 (Phoenix, 1985)

Clunas, C.: Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China (Princeton, NJ, 1998)

Coleman, E.: Philosophy of Painting by Shih-t'ao (The Hague, 1978)

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art (exh. cat. by Wai-kam Ho and others, Cleveland, OH, Mus. A. and Kansas City, MO, Nelson-Atkins Mus. A., 1980)

Ellsworth, R.: Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 1800-1950 (New York, 1987)

Fang, Jing Pei: Treasures of the Chinese Scholar: Form, Function and Symbolism (New York, 1998)

Fong, W. and Watt, J.: Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei (New York, 1997)

Fong, W.: Imperial Portraiture in the Song, Yuan and Ming Periods, Ars Orient., xxv (1995), pp. 47-6

Fong, W.: Images of the Mind (Princeton, 1984)

Fong, W.: Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in the 8th-14th Century (New York, 1992)

Franke, H.: Two Yüan Treatises on the Technique of Portrait Painting, Orient. A., o. s., iii (1950), pp. 27-32

Fu, M. and Fu, Shen: Studies in Connoisseurship: Chinese Paintings from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection in New York and Princeton (Princeton, 1973)

Gugong shuhua lu (Catalogue of paintings in the National Palace Museum, Taipei), 4 vols (Taipei, 1965)

Han and T'ang Murals (exh. cat. by J. Fontein and T. Wu, Boston, MA, Mus. F.A., 1976)

Huang, Binhong and Deng, Shi, eds: Meishu congshu (Collectanea on art) (Shanghai, 1947/R 1975)

In Pursuit of Antiquity: Chinese Paintings of the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse (exh. cat. by R. Whitfield, Princeton U., NJ, A. Mus., 1969)

Kesner, L.: Memory, Likeness, and Identity in Chinese Ancestor Portraits, Bull. Nat. Gal. Prague, iii (1994), pp. 4-15

Kidd, D.: Ritual and Realism in Palace Portraiture, Orient. A., xix/4 (1973), pp. 421-8

Lachman, C.: Evaluation of Song Dynasty Painters of Renown: Lui Tao-ch'un's Songchao minghua ping, T'oung Pao Monographie 16 (Leiden and New York, 1989)

Laing, E.: The Development of Flower Depiction and the Origin of the Bird-and-Flower Genre in Chinese Art, Bull. Mus. Far E. Ant., lxiv (Stockholm, 1992), pp. 180-223

Laing, E.: Scholars and Sages: A Study in Chinese Figure Painting (diss., Ann Arbor, U. MI, 1967)

Ledderose, L.: Subject-Matter in Early Chinese Painting Criticism, Orient. A., n. s., xix/1 (1973), pp. 69-83

Ledderose, L.: Mi Fu and the Classical Tradition of Chinese Calligraphy (Princeton, 1979)

Lee, S. E. and Ho, Wai-kam: Chinese Art under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) (Cleveland, 1968)

Liang, B., ed.: Selected Chinese Portrait Paintings from the Nanjing Museum (Hong Kong, 1993)

Lin, Y.: The Chinese Theory of Art (London, 1967)

Little, S.: Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China (Cleveland, 1988), pp. 1-67

Liu, C., D. Ching and J. Smith, eds: Character and Context in Chinese Calligraphy (Princeton, NJ, 1999)

Maeda, R. J.: Two Sung Texts on Chinese Painting and the Landscape Styles of the 11th and 12th Centuries (New York, 1978)

Munakata, K.: Ching Hao's Pi-fa chi: A Note on the Art of the Brush (Ascona, 1974)

Munakata, K.: Sacred Mountains in Chinese Art (Urbana and Chicago, 1991), pp. vii, 200

Munsterberg, H.: Zen and Oriental Art (Tokyo, 1965)

Murck, A. and Fong, Wen, eds: Words and Images: Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting (New York, 1990)

Murck, C., ed.: Artists and Traditions: Uses of the Past in Chinese Culture (Princeton, 1976)

Nakata, Y., ed.: Chugoku no bijutsu: Shoseki (Arts of China: Calligraphy), (Kyoto, 1982); Eng. trans. as A History of the Arts of China: Chinese Calligraphy (New York, Tokyo and Kyoto, 1983)

Nie, C., ed.: Qingdai gongting huihua: Gugong bowayuan cang wenwu zhenpin (Qing dynasty court paintings in the Palace Museum) (Hong Kong, 1996)

Norman, J.: Chinese (Cambridge, 1988)

Sakanishi, S.: Lin ch'üan kao chih: An Essay on Landscape Painting (London, 1959)

Seckel, D.: The Rise of Portraiture in Chinese Art, Artibus Asiae, liii/1-2 (1993), pp. 7-26

Seckel, D.: Das Portrat in Ostasien (Heidelberg, 1997)

Silbergeld, J.: Chinese Painting Studies in the West: A State-of-the-Field Article, J. Asian Stud., xlvi/4 (1987), pp. 849-97

Silbergeld, J.: Chinese Painting Style: Media, Methods and Principles of Form (Seattle, 1980)

Sirén, O.: Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles, 7 vols (New York and London, 1956-8)

Sirén, O.: The Chinese on the Art of Painting (New York, 1963)

Soper, A. C.: T'ang ch'ao ming hua lu: Celebrated Painters of the T'ang Dynasty by Chu Ching-Hsüan of T'ang, Artibus Asiae, xxxi (1958), pp. 204-30

Soper, A. C.: The First Two Laws of Hsieh Ho, Far E. Q., viii (1949), pp. 412-23

Soper, A. C.: Kuo Jo-hsü's Experiences in Painting (T'u-hua chien-wen chih) (Washington, DC, 1951/R 1971)

Spiro, A.: Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture (Berkeley, CA, 1990)

Splendours of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei (exh. cat., New York, Met., 1996)

Stuart, J. and Rawski, E.: Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits (Washington, D.C. and Stanford, 2001)

Sullivan, M.: Chinese Landscape Painting in the Sui and T'ang Dynasties (Berkeley, 1980)

Sullivan, M.: The Birth of Landscape Painting in China (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962)

Sullivan, M.: The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art (London and New York, 1973)

Suzuki, K., ed.: Chugoku kaiga sogo zuroku (Index of Chinese paintings), 5 vols (Tokyo, 1982)

Takeyoshi, Tsuruta: Kindai Chugoku kaiga (Modern Chinese painting) (Tokyo, 1974)

The Chinese Scholar's Studio: Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period: An Exhibition from the Shanghai Museum (exh. cat., ed. Chu-tsing Li and J. C. Y. Watt; New York, Asia Soc. Gals; Seattle, WA, A. Mus.; Washington, DC, Sackler Gal.; Kansas City, MO, Nelson-Atkins Mus. A.; 1987-8)

The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliot Collection (exh. cat. by R. Harrist, Jr., Wen Fong and others, Princeton, NJ, Art Museum, Princeton U., 1999)

Thiriez, R.: Photography and Portraiture in Nineteenth-century China, E. Asian Hist., no. 17-18 (June/Dec 1999), pp. 77-102

Traces of the Brush: Studies in Chinese Calligraphy (exh. cat. by Shen Fu and others, New Haven, CT, Yale U. A. G.; Berkeley, U. CA, A. Mus.; 1977)

Vinograd, R.: Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600-1900 (New York, 1992)

Weidner, M., ed.: Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting (Honolulu, 1994)

Wu, H.: The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting (Chicago, 1996)

Wu, H.: The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art (Stanford, CA, 1989)

Wu, Yangmu: The Techniques of Chinese Painting (London, 1990)

Xie, Zhiliu: Jianyuzagao (Xie Xhiliu's miscellaneous writings on connoisseurship) (Shanghai, 1979)

Yu, Anlan, ed.: Hua shi congshu (Collectanea on painting history) (Shanghai, 1962)

Yu, Haiyan, ed.: Hua lun congkan (Collectanea on painting theory) (Beijing, 1937)

Yu, Jianhua, ed.: Zhongguo Hualun Leibian (Anthology of Discourses on Chinese painting) (Beijing, 1957/R Hong Kong, 1973)

Zen Painting and Calligraphy (exh. cat. by J. Fontein and M. L. Hickman, Boston, MA, Mus. F.A., 1970)

Zen: Masters of Meditation in Images and Writings (exh. cat. by H. Brinker and Hiroshi Kanazawa, trans. A. Leisinger; Zurich, Mus. Rietberg, 1993)

Zheng, Wei: 'Shilun Gudai Huaniao Hua de Yuanliu Zhi Fazhan' (Discussions on the Origins and Development of Ancient Flower and Bird Painting), Wenwu (1963), no. 10, pp. 22-3

Zhongguo Gudai Shuhua Tumu (Catalogue of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy), 24 vols (Beijing, 1987)

Zito, A.: 'Silk and Skin: Significant Boundaries', Body, Subject and Power in China, ed. A. Zito and T. E. Barlow (Chicago, 1994)