Art by the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China (China Program Books (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

Park, J. P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0295991763 ISBN 13: 9780295991764

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2012

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Well-researched and eloquently written, and the joy to read is enriched by the extensive use of high-quality illustrations. . . . It is warmly recommended for readers interested in Ming cultural and social history, print and book culture, as well as visual culture. -- Hang Lin * Asiatische Studien/ Etudes Asiatiques * [Art by the Book] is a meticulously researched social history of the content and function of painting manuals published during the forty-year period between 1580 and 1620. . . . The book is most absorbing when Park traces the intimate connections of the manuals not only to the social pleasures of performing with brush and ink, but also to the more private emotions generated by the process of learning to use the brush well and fluidly. -- Lisa Claypool * The Journal of Asian Studies * To date, there are few detailed studies of huapa in English, which makes Park's book a welcomed addition to the literature. His book serves to introduce an important and still controversial aspect of late Ming artistic theory and production. -- Anne Burkus-Chasson * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies * This study of pioneering, late-Ming dynasty painting manuals by Zhou Luijing reveals how access to cultural knowledge played out in the dynamic social world of the late Ming dynasty. Recommended. * Choice * This is a scholarly investigation into a subject that has many fascinating aspects - artistic, social, and economic. Park's extensive research, evident in the careful treatment of the material, is a welcomed addition to the relatively new field of scholarship of Ming cultural history. -- Patricia Karetzsky * Frontiers of History in China, Vol. 8, No. 3 *

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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.

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• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0295991763
• ISBN 13: 9780295991764
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336