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Collecting the works of painter Zhiwei Tu

"ZHIWEI TU"

Shirl

Smithson, president

of the Oil Painters of America, has

compiled in this coffee-table sized

book 121

superb full color

reproductions of recent works by

Zhiwei Tu, plus

two more on

the heavy-gauge dust jacket.

The paintings

are expertly placed

in their artistic and historical

context in the introductory

foreword
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by

Prof.

Chi Ke of the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Arts

(translated by Hu Zheng and Steven

Kelly).

Included

among the reproductions

are details from a number

of mural-sized works now in museums

and private

collections, as

well as a compelling collection of

figurative

images from Chinese

legend, contemporary China, and

Tibet. The book

is a handsome

work of art in itself. A beautiful

restrospective

of this modern

master's most dramatic works to

date.

Published

by Arbor Hill Press in 1996. ISBN 0-47-5-0; Library of Congress

Catalog

Card

No. 96-. Condition: new. Pages: 201. Full color plates: 121, plus

dust jacket.

Biographical

essay by Shirl Smithson. Essay by Prof. Chi Ke of the Ghuangzhou

Institute

of

Fine Arts (trans. by Hu Zheng and Steven Kelly). Book design by John

Washington.

Photographs

by Michael Lincoln and Leon Lee

Retail

price: $300