Stanley Charles Nott (Compiler)
Chinese Culture in the Arts: Being an Illustrated Descriptive Record of the Meaning of the Emblematic and Symbolic Designs Personified in the Arts of China throughout the Ages.
Chinese Culture Study Group of America, 1946. This is copy number 951 of a first edition of 1500. xx/134 pages.
Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.75" x 12.5", is bound in green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book shows light shelfwear. Dust jacket exhibits wear, with creasing, small tears to rear panel. Small tear also appears at bottom edge of front panel. Jacket is now preserved in paper-backed mylar cover.
"For the first time, Dr. Nott convincingly explains the purpose and the original use of such puzzlng devices as the T'ao T'ieh and dragon symbols. Through his vanst store of botanical, historical and philosophical knowledge of China and its peoples, he brings to the world the full story of the cultural origins of obscure emblematic and symbolic forces enshrined in Chinese works of art, told in an enjoyable series of entertaining episodes.
This volume is in itself a beautiful work of art. It is illustrated with sixty-four exquisitely reproduced full-page plates showing some of the great Chinese ritualistic creations in dade now in America. The book also includes a series of oil painting reproductions whose theme is the various steps in carving jade ritualistic objects in an ancient Chinese workshop. Symbolic devices used generally in Chinese art are illustrated in 187 line drawings made especially for this work from selected world-famous specimens of Chinese art by Mrs. Stanley Charles Nott."