[Cahill] disturbs common assumptions and establishes unexpected connections in painting history, directs attention to unjustly neglected works and raises numerous issues well worth debating.
   --Tony Howes, China Review

This generously illustrated book has all the appurtenances required by scholars, taking its place in the thousand year, Oriental tradition of study and debate about the meaning, style and social role of painting. Yet its agreeable prose, based on the author's lectures, reflects his interest in reaching the general reader. That's fortunate, since Cahill's comparison of Japanese and Chinese painting holds plenty of lessons for Westerners unfamiliar with Asian arts.
   --Times Picayune

James Cahill is Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.

Read More by James Cahill:

• The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting