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Vernacular Painting in High Qing China
By Cahill, James
- ISBN
- 978-0-52025-857-0
- Publisher
- Univ. of California
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 2011
After researching the subject for more than ten years, Cahill (Chinese art, emeritus, Univ. of California, Berkeley) offers new perspectives on a previously unappreciated genre: functional (that is, nonliterati) painting from the late Ming (late 16th to mid-17th century) through the High Qing of the Manchu dynasty (mid-17th to late 18th century). Professional studio-artists (as opposed to scholar-officials) produced these ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
