GGM002 Gugong Museum: GUGONG BOWUYUAN CANG ZHONGGUO SHUFA QIANNIAN ZHENPIN. (1000 Years of Chinese Calligraphy from the Collections of the Gugong Museum). 故宮博物院藏中國書法千年珍品. Beijing, 2000. 285 pp. 100 items illustrated in colour plates throughout. 30x22 cm. Cloth. GBP 45.00 Catalogue of an exhibition including 100 selected items from the Gugong's collections produced to celebrate the best of Chinese calligraphy in the 1000 years before the turn of the millennium. Thus we are presented with superb pieces in good photography from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing periods, from Li Jianzhong and Ouyang Xiu to Kang Youwei. Detailed notes and artists' biographies are provided along with transcriptions into regular characters, where required. In Chinese only. Recommended. Subjects: Calligraphy Item 312 in List 211. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?g/GGM002.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |