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This volume cover a vast range of Chinese art from painting to sculpture and calligraphy to ceramics. Each chapter (of which there are six) deals with the genre or medium of art individually and with a wealth of pictures charts its development.

This is one of the clearest and most accessible introductory studies to the vast field of Chinese art available; it causes the reader to simultaneously want to visit both China and the British Museum where the collections portrayed are displayed.

This is a book about the startling possibilities in global and historical bronze sculpture. It is a catalog to an exhibition that gathered together the world's bronzes into possibly the greatest single collection ever seen. Consequently, there is much to surprise and delight here. The works are well lit and photographed and the commentaries are insightful and illuminating. The catalog is well thought through and there are no 'over the fold' images. The book is itself a thing of beauty that lives as well as the bronzes it depicts.

This is the catalogue from an exhibition of the same name at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2005/2006. It has good illustrations of the objects that were exhibited and a series of interesting essays to introduce the historical period & put the objects into perspective. My read through is written up in four parts:
http://ninecats.org/margaret/blog/2013/05/09/china-three-emperors-1662-1795-ed-e...
http://ninecats.org/margaret/blog/2013/05/29/china-three-emperors-1662-1795-ed-e...
http://ninecats.org/margaret/blog/2013/06/09/china-three-emperors-1662-1795-ed-e...
http://ninecats.org/margaret/blog/2013/06/16/china-three-emperors-1662-1795-ed-e...