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Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China
Pictures for Use and Pleasure Vernacular Painting in High Qing China
Author: James Cahill
In this groundbreaking book, James Cahill expands the field of Chinese pictorial art history, opening both scholarly studies and popular appreciation to vernacular paintings, "pictures for use and pleasure." These were works commissioned and appreciated during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by the non-elites of Chinese society, includi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520258570
ISBN-10: 0520258576
Publication Date: 7/1/2010
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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