Learning From Mount Hua - A Chinese Physician''s Illustrated Travel Record and Painting Theory

A translation and study of a travelogue, written and illustrated by a late 14th century Chinese physician and painter,Wang Lu, that became an album of 40 unusual paintings and a moving travel record. Having reconstructed the original sequence of the paintings, the author helps the reader share Wang's experiences, and analyses geological lore.

Product details

• Authors: Kathlyn Maurean Liscomb
• Assisted by: Francesco Pellizzi (Editor), Joseph Rykwert (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.1993
• EAN: 9780521411127
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41112-7
• No. of pages: 245
• Series: Res Monographs in Anthropology
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history