Abode of Illusions: The Garden of Chang Ta-ch'ien: Photographs by Hu Ch'ung-Hsien
by Strassberg, Richard E
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About This Item
Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.: Pacific Asia Museum, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 11" X 8 5/8. This is the catalog of an exhibition of the photographs of Hu Ch'ung-hsien at the Pacific Art Museum in Padadena, California in 1983; the photographs were taken over a two-year period in the garden of the painter Chang Ta-ch'ien in Taipei; the photographs, evocative of classical Chinese still-life paintings, have inscriptions--poems, reminiscences, and observations--in Chinese calligraphy by Chang Ta-ch'ien; includes 68 reproductions of the photographs (eight in color) with translations of the inscriptions and an introducton by Richard Strassberg (light gray covers with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy)
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- Title
- Abode of Illusions: The Garden of Chang Ta-ch'ien: Photographs by Hu Ch'ung-Hsien
- Author
- Strassberg, Richard E
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Pacific Asia Museum
- Place of Publication
- Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 11" X 8 5/8
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