Reading Chinese Mountains: Writing and Landscape
By Robert E. Harrist Jr., Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor of Chinese Art History at Columbia University
Prof. Robert E. Harrist Jr. has published books and articles on Chinese painting, calligraphy, and gardens, as well as on topics such as replicas in Chinese art, clothing in 20th-century China, and contemporary artists such as Xu Bing.
His most recent book, The Landscape of Words, which studies the role of language in shaping perceptions of the natural world, was awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize in 2010 (http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/HARLAC.html).
