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 228
erestedly review and estimate the forces operatingoutside itself; in which the state of society hasemerged from a state of warfare, such as the wearingof weapons implies, to a state of civility and amenity. The age of Sung has this modern character, ifwe are to judge it by the art it has left. We… … THE SUNG PERIOD IN CHINA time and the establishment of the House of Sungthere is a short period of fifty years, in which fivebrief dynasties rose and fell ; a period of troubleand unrest. Of the art of this time we know little. Adelicate fineness of style is said to have been a char-acteristic of…
Painting -- China · Painting -- Japan
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