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 260
ope theSung painting would have seemed, had they knownit, the very expression of their own minds : * thatis why it is of such living interest to us now. In the Sung period the system of competitiveexamination had become by long use frigid andacademic. The great economic reformer, WangAn-shih,… … THE SUNG PERIOD IN CHINA spirit, testing character, and bringing it more intorelation with the reaHty of Hfe. Wang An-shih,though no professional poet, has left a little poem,the sense of which is as follows : It is midnight ;all is silent in the house ; the water-clock has stopped.But I am unable…
Painting -- China · Painting -- Japan
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