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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting
Wang, Gai, Michael J. Hiscox, Mai-mai Sze · 1977 · 624 pages
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Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yüan Hua Chuan" (original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has translated and annotated the texts of instructions, discussions of the fundamentals of painting, notes on the preparation of colors, and chief editorial prefaces.
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