Ann Massing's new book, West Meets East in East Asian Brush Paintings, combines decades of experience in restoration to provide a unique and beautiful insight into the world of East Asian art.

Please note that the book is bilingual, and it is printed in both English and French.

After having studied art history and fine art at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, and then at Strasbourg University in France, the author trained as a painting restorer at the Institut für Technologie der Malerei in Stuttgart, Germany, becoming Diplom Restorator in 1978. She was Assistant to the Director at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge from 1978 to 2007 where she was a painting restorer and taught painting restoration. She edited several books for the Hamilton Kerr Institute mainly on the history of European painting materials and techniques and wrote her own book on the restoration of paintings in France in the eighteenth century before she began developing her own artistic interests.