Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China
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The sixteenth century in China was a period of rapid and unprecedented economic expansion. The period also saw a parallel expansion in the sphere of cultural production, as a growing class of consumers of luxury goods benefited from the formation of one of the classic early modern consumer societies. Pictures were a major source of consumable luxury at this period: pictures not only in the form of independently circulating images classifiable as "art,"...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0691057613
ISBN13:9780691057613
Release Date:January 1998
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 7.8" x 10.0"
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