Lanterna Rally

Author: John Calvin Ferguson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-05

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781391907802

Excerpt from Chinese Painting Ore than three hundred years ago Chang Ch'ou wrote in the Z ty fl Preface to his Cb'z'ng-lyo Sim Had Fang that he would like to be transformed into a bookworm, and promised that he would not injure any of the manuscripts or paintings in which he lived, but would be contented with mere existence in their company. Such was the delight with which one of the ablest critics of Chinese writings and paintings reveled in his enormous task of separating the good from the bad, the genuine from the false, among the accumulated ink-remains of previous generations. If Chang Ch'ou could have had his wish gratified by becom ing a bookworm, he would nor have been of that variety which Emer son placed in contrast with man thinking, for he had a keen mind. His wish was the measure of his appreciation of the worthy writings and paintings that came under his observation. These were the product of man's soul and were quite unlike the work of man's hands in bronze or clay or jade. Through these writings and paintings Chang Ch'ou held communion with the spirits of the' great artists and calligraphists who preceded him, and in their unseen world there were no limits of time or space. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.