Fu Lei on Art

Author: Fu Min
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: Fu Lei (1908-1966), a renowned Chinese literary and art translator, art critic, and commentator. His academic monograph Twenty Lectures on World Masterpieces of Art discusses the artistic styles of nearly twenty masters and their masterpieces since the Renaissance, integrating literature, music, philosophy, society, and the era into a cohesive whole, earning high acclaim among readers. With the publication of Letters from Fu Lei to His Family, Conversations with Fu Cong About Music, and Twenty Lectures on World Masterpieces of Art, the other side of Fu Lei as an art critic, along with his extensive knowledge, profound experiences, and the exquisite insights derived from them, are like a crystal finally free of long-accumulated dust, now shining before us. In addition to selecting works from the monograph Twenty Lectures on World Masterpieces of Art, this book also reorganizes and compiles various writings scattered elsewhere that discuss Chinese and Western art, dividing them into three parts: "Art Criticism," "Galleries of Art," and "Letters on Art."