04157oam 22009134a 450 991080943300332120221024201512.00-295-80703-2(CKB)3710000000685174(EBL)4648936(SSID)ssj0001674185(PQKBManifestationID)16472612(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001674185(PQKBWorkID)12230563(PQKB)11547797(Au-PeEL)EBL4648936(CaPaEBR)ebr11249868(CaONFJC)MIL924371(OCoLC)958577511(OCoLC)950459937(MdBmJHUP)musev2_81484(MiAaPQ)EBC4648936(EXLCZ)99371000000068517420160524h20122012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrArt by the bookpainting manuals and the leisure life in late Ming China /J.P. ParkSeattle, Washington ;London, [England] :University of Washington Press,2012.©20121 online resource (340 p.)A China Program bookDescription based upon print version of record.0-295-99176-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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 capitalChina Program book.AnleitunggndMaltechnikgndÄsthetikgndTuschmalereigndHandbuchgndMalereigndPainting, Chinesefast(OCoLC)fst01050737Manners and customsfast(OCoLC)fst01007815Art and societyfast(OCoLC)fst00815432ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLESBooksbisacshARTHistoryGeneralbisacshPainting, ChineseHandbooks, manuals, etcArt and societyChinaHistoryMing dynasty, 1368-1644ChinagndChinafastChinaSocial life and customs960-1644History.Handbooks and manuals.AnleitungMaltechnikÄsthetikTuschmalereiHandbuchMalereiPainting, Chinese.Manners and customs.Art and society.ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLESBooks.ARTHistoryGeneral.Painting, ChineseArt and societyHistory759.951/09031Park J. P.1648591MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910809433003321Art by the book3996850UNINA