- Paperback: 648 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press; annotated edition edition (1 Mar 1978)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0691018197
- ISBN-13: 978-0691018195
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 21.8 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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The Mustard Seed Garden will always be one of the greatest manuals of the most marvellous painting the world has ever known, and one cannot be too grateful for having it, with its commentary, available in English. -- "Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society
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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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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Mustard Seed Garden Manuel of Painting had been a standard reference book for Chinese beginners of painting for a long time (though it ceased to be so quite a while ago). It remains a valuable summary of styles and methods in traditional Chinese paintings, and is of a lot of historical interests because it represents the scope and perspective of the authors some 300 years ago. It is really a fun book to read, but it would be dangerous to use the book as a guideline for appreciating traditional Chinese paintings cause this book was, after all, compiled with a very strict ideology of paintings, even ignoring and misinterpreting many art-historical facts.
I would have given the book a 10 if this was not a bad translation. First, we have to admit, it is an old translation. For whatever reasons which I suspect are related to the fact that the book was first published at 1956, there are simply many wrong translations in the English text. If you can read Chinese, I bet you would hardly resist the temptation of giving the book a thorough revision. I often laughed hurting my stomach when I read it. I will leave you to judge whether it's a good aspect or a bad one of this book.
I would have given the book a 10 if this was not a bad translation. First, we have to admit, it is an old translation. For whatever reasons which I suspect are related to the fact that the book was first published at 1956, there are simply many wrong translations in the English text. If you can read Chinese, I bet you would hardly resist the temptation of giving the book a thorough revision. I often laughed hurting my stomach when I read it. I will leave you to judge whether it's a good aspect or a bad one of this book.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Wonderful book. A great book for any painter or artist with a fascination or desire to understand chinese paintings.
This book would have been a ten if it was in color but despite that it's many (many!) illustrations and the translation make this book a genuine treasure.
It encompassed several volumes from books over 200 years old - but the wisdom and teachings shared are invaluable and timeless.
This book would have been a ten if it was in color but despite that it's many (many!) illustrations and the translation make this book a genuine treasure.
It encompassed several volumes from books over 200 years old - but the wisdom and teachings shared are invaluable and timeless.
Format:Paperback
I still remember the day I first opened this book like it was yesterday. As I sat in awe it felt like I had stumled upon a lost cultural treasure. As an amateur ink painter I refer to examples from Chinese and Japanese Master Painters all the time but when in doubt about something, I always refer to the Mustard Seed Garden for the definite answer. To me this book is not an instructional Manual of Painting as such. The illustrations were originally printed in monochrome a long time ago and therefore lack greyscale as well as essential detail. Nevertheless this book is the mother of all other books on ink painting. It conveys to us the spirit that inspired countless generations of Chinese and Japanese artists. What shocks me is that as an art school student in Belgium, during 4 years and many hours of art history lessons, Chinese Art was hardly ever mentioned! This book is evidence that Chinese Painting is a grossly underestimated art form that, although unknown, it is by no ways inferior to Western Painting.
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