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Article: Chinese Painting Techniques.
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- April 1, 2002
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CHINESE PAINTING TECHNIQUES (1999; $22.95), by Alison Stilwell Cameron. Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, NY 11501.
The daughter of General Joseph W. Stilwell, the author of this book lived in China for lengthy portions of her life. As she put it, "Looking back now over a distance of many thousands of miles and 20-some years, I think my memories of the years we spent in the lovely old city of Peking have been sharpened rather than dulled by the passage of time."
For more uninformed viewers, Chinese painting techniques seem rather mechanical. Certainly, there is an orientation quite at odds with simple expression and more open-ended ...