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Title: Chinese Painters
A Critical Study

Author: Raphael Petrucci

Commentator: Laurence Binyon

Translator: Frances Seaver

Release Date: August 9, 2007 [EBook #22288]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Transcriber's Note: 1. There is one instance each of
Huang Yin-Piau and Huang Yin-Piao, and
Yuen Shou-p'ing and Yuen Chou-p'ing
so they have been left as printed.
2. In this text the breve has been rendered as [)u]

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CHINESE PAINTERS

CHINESE PAINTERS
A CRITICAL STUDY

BY
RAPHAEL PETRUCCI

TRANSLATED BY
FRANCES SEAVER

WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE BY
LAURENCE BINYON
OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

AND WITH TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS IN DUOTONE

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PREFACE

A translator can have but one aim--to present the thought of the author
faithfully. In this case an added responsibility is involved, since one
who had so much to give to the world has been taken in his prime. M.
Petrucci has written at length of art in the Far East in his exhaustive
work _La Philosophie de la Nature dans l'Art d'Extreme Orient_ and
elsewhere, and has demonstrated the wide scope of his thought and
learning. The form and style in _Peintres Chinois_ are the result of much
condensation of material and have thus presented problems in translation,
to which earnest thought has been given.

In deference to the author's wish the margin has not been overladen and
only a short tribute, by one able to speak of him from personal knowledge,
has been included, together with a few footnotes and a short bibliography
of works of reference indispensable to the student who will pursue this
absorbing