Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China
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In this groundbreaking book, James Cahill expands the field of Chinese pictorial art history, opening both scholarly studies and popular appreciation to vernacular paintings, "pictures for use and pleasure." These were works commissioned and appreciated during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by the non-elites of Chinese society, including women. Traditional Chinese collectors, like present-day scholars of Chinese painting, have favored the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520258576
ISBN13:9780520258570
Release Date:September 2010
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:3.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 8.1" x 10.0"
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