The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting

(Part of the The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Series)

by James Cahill

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The Compelling Image will delight the art-lover who does not yet realize that Chinese painting can be as original and moving as El Greco or C zanne. With a graceful authority, James Cahill explores the radiant painting of that tumultuous era when the collapse of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China dramatically changed the lives and thinking of artists and intellectuals.

The brilliant masters of the seventeenth century...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674152808

ISBN13:9780674152809

Release Date:January 1982

Publisher:Belknap Press

Length:276 Pages

Weight:3.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 9.0" x 11.7"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography Asia China History & Criticism

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