Painting in the Far East : an introduction to the history of pictorial art in Asia especially China and Japan (1913)
Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943 · New York : Longmans, Green · leaf 100
ds the names and works of a long rollof painters. To fill these pages with the records,for which the student should refer to Dr. Gilessbook, is not my purpose. But it may be well tosay something of the various subjects which formedthe content of these painters art, since they willrecur again and… … FOURTH TO EIGHTH CENTURY in the Chinese imagination—the Dragon and theTiger. Both are symbols of power. In the super-stition of Hteral minds the Dragon was the geniusof the element of water, producing clouds andmists ; the Tiger the genius of the mountains,whose roaring is heard in the wind that…
Painting -- China · Painting -- Japan
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