The painter's practice: how artists lived and worked in traditional China

In The Painter's Practice, James Cahill reveals the intricacies of the painter's life with respect to payment and patronage - an approach that is still largely absent from the study of East Asian art

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Main Author: Cahill, James (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia Univ. Press 1994
Series:Bampton lectures in America 29
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Summary:In The Painter's Practice, James Cahill reveals the intricacies of the painter's life with respect to payment and patronage - an approach that is still largely absent from the study of East Asian art
Drawing upon such unofficial archival sources as diaries and letters, Cahill challenges the traditional image of the disinterested amateur scholar-artist, unconcerned with material rewards, that has been developed by China's literati, perpetuated in conventional biographies, and abetted by the artists themselves
His work fills in the hitherto unexplored social and economic contexts in which painters worked, revealing the details of how painters in China actually made their living from the sixteenth century onward
Physical Description:XI, 187 S. zahlr. Ill.
ISBN:0231081804

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