J P Park

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Art by the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming ChinaHardcover, 21 February 2012

Art by the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China
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Part of Series
China Program Books (Hardcover)
Print Length
336 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Date Published
21 Feb 2012
ISBN-10
0295991763
ISBN-13
9780295991764

Description

Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format were widely reprinted and disseminated in a number of contemporary publications. Focusing on Zhou's work, Art by the Book describes how such publications accommodated the cultural taste and demands of the general public, and shows how painting manuals functioned as a form in which everything from icons of popular culture to graphic or literary cliche was presented to both gratify and shape the sensibilities of a growing reading public. As a special commodity of early modern China, when cultural standing was measured by a person's command of literati taste and lore, painting manuals provided nonelite readers with a device for enhancing social capital.

Product Details

Author:
J P Park
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
21 February 2012
Dimensions:
27.94 x 21.08 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
0295991763
ISBN-13:
9780295991764
Language:
English
Location:
Seattle
Pages:
336
Weight:
884.5 gm

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