Beauty Scroll (Vol. 1 & 2)

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Features: The beauty expressed by different painters is often stereotyped and stylized due to preferences. "Beauty Scroll" focuses on the diverse and varied forms of beauty, encompassing the beauty of all types of women, presenting a multitude of expressions and a gallery of stunning beauties. Supported by meticulous selection, design, exquisite printing, and binding, it presents a high-quality premium art book. It serves as both an elegant gift and a treasured collection, embodying inner wisdom alongside outer beauty, continuallying beauty, and maintaining consistency between appearance and essence, brimming with aesthetic value.
"Beauty Scroll" is the first large-scale art book in China to compile beauty portraits from ancient and modern times at home and abroad. The book is divided into two volumes: "The Charm of Ink" and "The Radiance of Oil," featuring over 500 works by more than 220 painters from China and abroad. Most of the legendary masterpieces of beauty portraits and influential modern works are included. When it comes to Chinese beauty legends, names like "Xi Shi washing sand," "Diaochan bowing to the moon," "Zhaojun leaving the frontier," and "the Empress stepping into the bath" come to mind. In China's 5,000-year history, they have woven tales of poignant emotions, tender sorrow, and endless admiration. This book gathers portraits of figures like Xi Shi, Diaochan, Zhaojun, Yang Guifei, the Luo River Goddess, Chang'e, the Twin Beauties (Xiaojiao), Zhu Wenjun, Wu Zetian, Honglian, Li Huimeng, Li Qingzhao, Su Xiaoxiao, Xue Tao, Li Shishi, Chen Yuanyuan, Li Xiangjun, Dong Xiaowan, and Xiangfei, among others—each exuding charm and elegance. Truly, all the beauty of the world seems to gather in this book.
"Beauty Scroll" is prefaced by Xia Shuqiqi. It is edited by Dr. Zou Wen, Associate Professor of the School of Arts and Crafts at Tsinghua University. Seventeen renowned scholars from China's art community have contributed to the collection, selection, authentication, photography, and writing of the works. After three years of collaboration, they completed this book.
"Beauty Scroll" is a luxurious hardcover art book printed on high-quality imported copperplate paper with full-color illustrations. Each artwork is accompanied by elegant annotations, introducing the artist, the title, the medium, the era, and the essence of the work, enabling the text to interpret the image and the image to convey meaning. "Beauty Scroll" is an art book that compiles beauty portraits. It represents the beauty of women from China and abroad, embodying classic aesthetics. Thus, it holds high value in terms of appreciation, artistry, scholarship, and collectibility.