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• Art

• Art, Chinese -- 19th century
• Art, Chinese -- 20th century
• Art, Chinese -- Catalogs
• Art, Chinese -- Exhibitions
• Art, Chinese -- Japanese influences
• Art, Chinese -- Periodicals
• Art, Chinese -- Qin-Han dynasties, 221 B.C.-220 A.D.
• Art, Chinese -- Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368
• Art, Chinese -- Study and teaching
• Art, Chinese -- Tang-Five dynasties, 618-960
• Art, Chinese -- Three kingdoms-Sui dynasty, 220-618

• Chinese art

• The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Joshua A. Fogel (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

• The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Joshua A. Fogel (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

• Complementary Modernisms in China and the United States: Art as Life/Art as Idea (Punctum Books, c2020), by Zhang Jian and Bruce Robertson (PDF at oapen.org)

• A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1998), by Julia Frances Andrews and Kuiyi Shen, contrib. by Jonathan D. Spence, Shan Guolin, Christina Chu, Xue Yongnian, and Meiqing Gao (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ancient Chinese Art: The Ernest Erickson Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1987), by Maxwell K. Hearn (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• China, 5,000 Years: Innovation and Transformation in the Arts (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1998), ed. by Sherman E. Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Loan Exhibition of Early Chinese Art Treasures, for the Benefit of Chinese Civilian War Victims (exhibit catalog; New York: Arden Gallery, ca. 1938) (page images at HathiTrust)

• China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2004), by James C. Y. Watt, An Jiayao, Angela Falco Howard, B. I. Marshak, Su Bai, and Zhao Feng (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2004), by James C. Y. Watt, An Jiayao, Angela Falco Howard, B. I. Marshak, Su Bai, and Zhao Feng (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2004), by James C. Y. Watt, An Jiayao, Angela Falco Howard, B. I. Marshak, Su Bai, and Zhao Feng (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art (Berkeley et al.: Global, Area, and International Archive; University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Joshua A. Fogel (page images and PDF at escholarship.org)

• Sinica (in German) (full serial archives)
• Chinesische Blätter für Wissenschaft und Kunst (in German) (full serial archives)

• Arts of the Sung and Yüan: Papers Prepared for an International Symposium Organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Conjunction with the Exhibition "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei" (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1996), ed. by Maxwell K. Hearn and Judith G. Smith (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Resource for Educators (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2003), by Elizabeth Hammer, contrib. by Felicia Blum and Maxwell K. Hearn
  • PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org
  • page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google

• Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Audrey G. Spiro (HTML at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Claude Monet: The Water-Lilies; and Other Writings on Art (Urbana, IL: Windsor and Downs Press; 2017), by Georges Clemenceau, trans. by Bruce Michelson (illustrated HTML and Epub with commentary at Illinois)
• A. Hyatt Mayor: Selected Writings and a Bibliography (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• The Visual Experience; An Introduction To Art (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ca. 1961), by Bates Lowry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Marsden Hartley (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Art (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1914), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Art and Socialism, by William Morris (HTML at marxists.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Son, 1873), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1877), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Spirit (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1923), by Robert Henri, ed. by Margery Ryerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Barbaren und Klassiker: Ein Buch von der Bildnerei Exotischer Völker (in German; title page appears to be missing; Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Hausenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Course of Lectures Delivered at the New York School of Applied Design for Women (New York: Irving Press, 1912), ed. by Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, contrib. by Frank Edwin Elwell, Henry Reuterdahl, Louis R. Metcalfe, H. K. Kevorkian, and Albert Sterner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Creative Will: Studies in the Philosophy and the Syntax of Aesthetics (New York and London: J. Lane, 1916), by Willard Huntington Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hopes and Fears for Art, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'Art et le Geste (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1910), by Jean d' Udine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on Art, and Poems, by Washington Allston (page images at MOA)
• Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Seven Discourses on Art, by Joshua Reynolds (Gutenberg text)
• Since Cézanne (ca. 1922), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Two Paths, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)
• An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946), by Maya Deren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• System and Dialectics of Art (New York: Delphic studios, 1937), by John Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• Elements of Art Criticism, by G. W. Samson (page images at MOA)
• The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (London: The New Age Press, 1908), by Bernard Shaw (PDF at modjourn.org)
• Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Signs of Change, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)

• Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964-2005: A Bibliography (c2006), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by John Philip O'Neill (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages (new edition; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: William Heinemann, 1917), by Salomon Reinach, trans. by Florence Simmonds (PDF at djm.cc)

• Guggenheim International Award, 1964 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1963), ed. by Lawrence Alloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Guggenheim International Award, 1960 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1960), ed. by Louise Averill Svendsen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Guggenheim International Award, 1958 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1958), ed. by Louise Averill Svendsen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ten Young Artists: Theodoron Awards (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1971), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Thomas M. Messer, Linda Shearer, and Diane Waldman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)

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