Authors:Lorry Swerts, Koen De Ridder,
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: chinese, christian, art, leuven, studies, inculturation, painter, genechten, flemish, missionary, mon, van
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2002-07
List price: $46.50
ISBN-10: 9058672220
ISBN-13: 9789058672223

In this beautifully illustrated book, with some color & many black and white photos, the life & work of the Flemish missionary artists known in Chinese as Fang Xisheng is studied, including his education in the Netherlands as an etcher and mural painter and then his career in China as a missionary, where he mastered the techniques of Chinese traditional arts & crafts and taught as a professor of the arts at the Catholic University of Beijing