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Art by the Book : Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China / / J.P. Park



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Autore: Park J. P. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Art by the Book : Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China / / J.P. Park Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Seattle, Washington ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Washington Press, , 2012
©2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 p.)
Disciplina: 759.951/09031
Soggetto topico: Anleitung
Maltechnik
Ästhetik
Tuschmalerei
China
Handbuch
Malerei
Painting, Chinese
Manners and customs
Art and society
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES - Books
ART - History - General
Art and society - China - History - Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Soggetto geografico: China
China Social life and customs 960-1644
Soggetto genere / forma: History
Handbooks and manuals.
Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: "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
Titolo autorizzato: Art by the book  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-295-80703-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910465497203321
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Serie: China Program book.