vainker shelagh chen (8 risultati)

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Fang Zhaoling ? 1914?2006 (2014) by Shelagh Vainker and Yi Chen (Ashmolean Museum Oxford) is one of those books that looks calm and respectable on the outside and then quietly drops you into a lifetime of talent, discipline, and ink-on-paper brilliance. It?s a catalogue, yes ? but in the best way: a museum-grade guide to an artist whose work carries the strange magic of being both deeply traditional and unmistakably personal. Fang Zhaoling lived through a century that did not exactly specialise in serenity ? and yet her paintings often radiate that particular kind of cultivated calm that takes decades to earn. This book gives you the arc: not just ?here are some lovely images,? but a sense of an artist?s world ? her visual language, her influences, her choices, and the way a single brushstroke can hold a whole conversation with the past. If you?ve ever wondered how Chinese painting manages to feel like poetry and design and philosophy at once, this is an excellent place to start. Because Fang?s work is the sort that invites slow looking. There?s structure and spontaneity, control and freedom, the play between emptiness and form ? and the quietly thrilling realisation that ?simplicity? is often the product of enormous skill. You might open it casually and then find yourself leaning in, inspecting texture, line quality, and compositional decisions like you?ve become a person who says things like ?the brush energy here is remarkable? without irony. (It happens. Don?t fight it.) Being an Ashmolean publication, it has that reassuring institutional tone: intelligent, clear, not trying to sell you hype. Just solid scholarship, thoughtful context, and high-quality reproductions that let the work do its thing. It?s the kind of book that makes your home feel slightly more cultured simply by existing within it. Condition: Good , meaning it?s been enjoyed but not abused ? handled, read, maybe kept near a desk for those moments when you want to remember that human beings can be quietly brilliant. It?s not pristine, but it?s perfectly presentable: an art book that has lived a life and is ready to keep doing its job. Perfect for: fans of Chinese painting and modern ink art, museum-goers who like taking the exhibition home with them, collectors of Ashmolean/British Museum-style catalogues, and anyone who wants a serious, beautiful book that rewards attention. Sold by Crappy Old Books , naturally ? because where else would an Ashmolean catalogue on a 20th-century master end up, if not waiting patiently for the next person to discover that the quietest books sometimes have the most to say.

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Most of our very good books have only minor imperfections such as shelf wear consistent with a new book that's sat on a bookshop shelf for a year or two. Occasionally we may miss other minor imperfections as we have to grade books at speed. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. "Michael Sullivan is the leading Western authority on art in China in the period since 1900." Essays, chronology of life, bibliography works, archival photographs.

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. In excellent condition.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No markings.

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. A clean, presentable copy. Spine not creased. 245 x 175 mm. 176 pp. Colour and b&w illustrations. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Michael Sullivan's career has spanned seven decades, and the essays in this volume have been written by friends, students and colleagues from every period of his life. The covers and text block are square , tight and clean. Books are checked and photographed as proof against in-transit damage. Book price includes 2nd class parcel post in UK only.