Gu Kaizhi Admonitions Scroll (12 results)

Condition: Used - Like New. 2003. Hardcover. Fine.

Condition: New. Fine. Cloth, D-j. 2003. Originally published at $120.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With Powell's sticker on front With very good dust jacket. Very Good hardcover with light shelfwear - NICE! Oversized.

Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Profusely illustrated (illustrator). 1st. 4to, 336 pp.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 336. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Colloquies on art & archaeology in Asia; no. 21. ISBN: 0714124141 Neat stamp on front endpaper, otherwise fine in fine dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, 4to, pp.336. Extensively illustrated in full colour, clean and bright copy, Very Good condition. Heavy, may incur additional shipping charges.

First Edition. Large hardcover, very good with light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 336 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 29 cm. Contents: Preface / Shane McCausland -- Text and Translation of Zhang Hua's Poem, 'Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies' ('Nüshi zhen') -- Introduction: The Admonitions Scroll and Chinese Art History / Wen C. Fong -- Part 1: Kingship, the Way and Art: A Study of the Date of the Admonitions Scroll Based on Landscape Portrayal / Yang Xin -- Creating Ancestors / Audrey Spiro -- Concerning the Date and Authorship of the Admonitions Handscroll / Richard M. Barnhart -- The Admonitions Scroll Revisited: Iconology, Narratology, Style, Dating / Wu Hung -- Who Was Zhang Hua's 'Instructress'? / Julia K. Murray -- Refiguring: The Visual Rhetoric of the Sixth-Century Northern Wei 'Filial Piety' Engravings / Eugene Y. Wang -- Remarks of a Later Female Historian / Michael Nylan. Part 2: Gu Kaizhi and the Literati Tradition: The Admonitions Scroll in the British Museum: New Light on the Text-Image Relationships, Painting Style and Dating Problem / Chen Pao-chen -- The Convergence of Gu Kaizhi and Admonitions in the Literary Record / Alfreda Murck -- The Admonitions Scroll: a Song Version / Yu Hui -- 'Like the gossamer thread of a spring silkworm' -- Gu Kaizhi in the Yuan Renaissance / Shane McCausland -- The Evolving Significance of Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions of the Court Instructress / Maxwell K. Hearn -- Part 3: The Treasure of Empires: Beyond the Admonitions Scroll: A Study of its Mounting, Seals and Inscriptions / Wang Yao-t'ing -- A 'Cultural Biography' of the Admonitions Scroll: The Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries / Stephen Little -- Late Ming Collectors and Connoisseurs, and the Making of the Modern Concept of 'Gu Kaizhi' / Yin Ji'nan. The Admonitions Scroll in the Context of Ming Aesthetics and Collecting: Material Artefact, Cultural Biography and Cultural Imagining / Cary Y. Liu -- A 'Cultural Biography' of the Admonitions Scroll: The Qianlong Reign (1736-1795) / Nixi Cura -- The Nineteenth-Century Provenance of the Admonitions Scroll: A Hypothesis / Zhang Hongxing -- The Admonitions Scroll in the Twentieth Century / Charles Mason -- The Admonitions Scroll in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Discussant's Remarks / Craig Clunas -- The Conservation History and Condition of the Admonitions Scroll / Sydney Thomson -- Chronology of Chinese Dynasties -- Chronology of the Admonitions Scroll in the British Museum.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Near Fine copy of this volume which 'presents the proceedings of an international colloquy about a singular work of art'. Dust Jacket: pictorial laminated pale grey paper with image of scroll to front and red lettering to front and spine and black lettering to rear; in excellent condition, very clean and bright, not fade; perhaps the slightest sign of shelf wear to top edges; not price clipped (now protected). Cover: black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine; in excellent condition, very clean and bright; perhaps the slightest bump to bottom fore-corner. Internally: very clean and tightly bound, no inscriptions. Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. 336 pp. A large and heavy book which may incur increased postal charges outside the UK.

Cloth. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Wonderful scholarship. pp336. As new; in publisher's shrinkwrap.

The British Museum Press / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London 2003. 4to. 336 pages. Illustrations in b/w and colour. Orig. black cloth in dust wrappers. Wrappers with some light edge wear. Near fine / Very good wrappers.