Beautiful Kweilin
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few landscapes on earth have inspired poets, painters, and pilgrims for as long as the karst mountains of Guilin — known in an earlier romanisation as Kweilin — where limestone peaks rise like brushstrokes from the misted waters of the Li River in southern China. Beautiful Kweilin presents this legendary region through a curated collection of photography and evocative imagery, capturing the timeless scenery that has made Guilin synonymous with classical Chinese landscape aesthetics, from the otherworldly rock formations of Reed Flute Cave to the tranquil bamboo-lined banks of the Li. Published by the Foreign Languages Press in Peking, this volume belongs to a tradition of prestige pictorial books produced for an international readership during the mid-to-late twentieth century, designed to introduce China's most celebrated natural wonders to the wider world. The work illustrates how landscape and cultural identity are inseparable in the Chinese artistic tradition, where mountains and rivers carry deep philosophical and poetic resonance. A testament to a place where nature itself seems to have been arranged by a master calligrapher's hand, this book leaves the reader wondering whether any photograph can truly do justice to a view that has humbled artists for a thousand years.
Genre: Photography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few landscapes on earth have inspired poets, painters, and pilgrims for as long as the karst mountains of Guilin — known in an earlier romanisation as Kweilin — where limestone peaks rise like brushstrokes from the misted waters of the Li River in southern China. Beautiful Kweilin presents this legendary region through a curated collection of photography and evocative imagery, capturing the timeless scenery that has made Guilin synonymous with classical Chinese landscape aesthetics, from the otherworldly rock formations of Reed Flute Cave to the tranquil bamboo-lined banks of the Li. Published by the Foreign Languages Press in Peking, this volume belongs to a tradition of prestige pictorial books produced for an international readership during the mid-to-late twentieth century, designed to introduce China's most celebrated natural wonders to the wider world. The work illustrates how landscape and cultural identity are inseparable in the Chinese artistic tradition, where mountains and rivers carry deep philosophical and poetic resonance. A testament to a place where nature itself seems to have been arranged by a master calligrapher's hand, this book leaves the reader wondering whether any photograph can truly do justice to a view that has humbled artists for a thousand years.