Sources

The background for the PowerPoint presentations in this web page was taken from a photograph of an imperial dragon, depicted on a Ming Dynasty embroidery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Gift of Edna Bahr); photograph page 34, The Horizon Book of the Arts of China.

The following resources were used in the creation of this web page:

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Educational Resource Packets including "Wishes and Riddles: Symbolic Imagery in Chinese Art," "Mysteries of Ancient China," and "Ancient China: a Workshop". http://www.asianart.org

"China Oil Painting Gallery Ltd. (COPG)," http://www.copg-art.com/

Chinese Art, Mary Tregear, Oxford University Press, 1980.

"Contemporary Chinese Paintings of Ho Hung Wong, the Zhong Shan Master," http://www.robynbuntin.com/wong.htm

Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese Art, Hugo Munserberg, Hacker Art Books, New York, 1981.

"Historical Development of Women's Art in Taiwan," http://web.ukonline.co.uk/n.paradoxa/lai.htm

Horizon Book of the Arts of China, Edited by Horizon magazine, American Heritage Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1969.

"Legacy and Transition of Ink painting: Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting from Taiwan," http://www.c-c-c.org/ex/ink/ink.html

"The Problem of Form in Song Dynasty Theories of Painting," http://soshi.shinshu-u.ac.jp/gakkaiho-50.html

"Yunnan Art," http://www.immedia.com/~ArtXChange/AX-YunnanArt

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