Mon Van Genechten (1903-1974):
Flemish Missionary & Chinese Painter
Inculturation of Christian Art in ChinaBy: Lorry Swerts & Koen De Ridder
July 2002
Leuven University
ISBN: 90-5867-222-0
190 pages, Illustrated, 6 ½ x 9 ½"
$46.50 paper original
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.
Biography
Fine Arts
Leuven Chinese Studies XI
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