Art by the Book : Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China /
"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 a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle [Wash.] :
University of Washington Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chronology of Chinese dynasties
- Introduction. William Shakespeare, a great painter?
- Genre and biography
- Words without images
- Portraits of the characteristic
- Icons of love and marginality
- The art of being artistic
- Coda. The late Ming at the crossroads
- Appendix 1. Locations and editions of late Ming painting manuals
- Appendix 2. Lost manuals and albums of the Ming dynasty.


