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...young Italian Jesuit missionary, Giuseppe Castiglione, arrived in Peking and, like other Jesuits of his time, soon went to work for the Emperor, Kang xi. For a half-century, under the name Lang Shining, Castiglione served as a court painter, brilliantly blending Western and Eastern styles. Lang Shining's success is evident in Treasures of the Forbidden City (Viking; 262 pages; $75); his monumental painting of a deer-hunting party is one of only 100 art objects chosen for this book from more than 910,000 items in Peking's Palace Museum. The selection, compiled and annotated by Zhu Jiajin...
...seeing. Je Suis le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso (Atlantic Monthly Press; 347 pages; $65) documents that revolution of vision through the artist's eyes. The book reproduces six sketchbooks and includes selections from 36 others, each illustrating the development of images and styles that dominated the painter's major periods. Scholars should find this work indispensable; art lovers will discover renewed appreciation of one of the century's most creative forces...
...group [Do Make Say Think] it’s not a single person. But even if it’s a single person, there’s a sense of playfulness in the art itself – like if you’re a painter and you paint something and you can step back and look at it and go oh I see that now. And then you’re never on your own no matter what, even if you’re painting by yourself. There’s kind of a little dance that goes back...
...million dollars. Or, more precisely, half a million, the amount he spent on a recent Saturday afternoon as he strolled around Beijing's funky 798 district, a series of crumbling redbrick factories that house the Chinese capital's largest concentration of art galleries. Appearing at an opening for the painter Yang Shaobin, the 44-year-old millionaire businessman stands out from the crowd of black-clad, ponytailed dealers, critics and artists, more John Travolta than Jasper Johns. His black hair is permed into loose curls that flounce slightly as he walks, his torso covered by a tight, long-sleeved silk...
Griet’s poignant gaze captivates the 17th-century Dutch painter and Chevalier’s readers alike. Yet before there was a Griet to challenge the muse’s expected passivity, there was a spirited Huguenot peasant called Isabelle...