The Three Perfections: Chinese Painting, Poetry and Calligraphy by Michael Sullivan

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The Three Perfections: Chinese Painting, Poetry and Calligraphy by Michael Sullivan

8vo. pp. 64. b/w illustrations. paperback (near fine). New York: George Braziller, [1980].

ISBN-10: 0807609978 / ISBN-13: 9780807609972

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What do the Chinese write on their paintings? Why do they write on them? Michael Sullivan provides a lucid and engaging analysis of the intimate relationships among painting, poetry, and calligraphy in Chinese culture. The fundamental unity of writing and painting is shown to be an ancient, though still valid, concept in China.