Author

Publication

2017 - Princeton University Press, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

72,000 words, Guess

Page Count

288 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780691171937
  • ISBN-100691171939
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016027789
  • OCLC Control Number948560886
  • Better World Books9780691171937
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC759.51
  • LCCND1040 .C627 2017
  • LCCND1040.C627 2016

Description

"What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Richly illustrated, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences demonstrates that viewers in China and beyond have irrevocably shaped this great artistic tradition. Arguing that audiences within China were crucially important to the evolution of Chinese painting, Clunas considers how Chinese artists have imagined the reception of their own work. By examining paintings that depict people looking at paintings, he introduces readers to ideal types of viewers: the scholar, the gentleman, the merchant, the nation, and the people"--Publisher's description.

Subjects

Topics

ARTAsian759.51GeneralHistoryArt--asianAppreciation

Series Statement

  • The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts -- 2012
  • Bollingen series -- XXXV : volume 61
  • A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts -- 2012.
  • Bollingen series -- 35:61.

Other Editions

  • Chinese painting and its audiencesPrinceton University Press2017-01-01

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