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Commemorative Landscape Painting in China
Anne de Coursey Clapp
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Description for Commemorative Landscape Painting in China
Paperback. Presents a study of an important genre of Ming-dynasty Chinese painting in which landscapes are actually disguised portraits that celebrate an individual and his achievements, ambitions, and tastes in an open effort to win recognition, support, and social status. Series: Publications of the Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. Num Pages: 144 pages, 51 color illus. 35 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; ACBP; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 259 x 183 x 13. Weight in Grams: 490.
When is a landscape more than a landscape? This is a richly illustrated study of an important genre of Ming-dynasty Chinese painting in which landscapes are actually disguised portraits that celebrate an individual and his achievements, ambitions, and tastes in an open effort to win recognition, support, and social status. In this unique study, Anne de Coursey Clapp presents a broad view of these commemorative landscape paintings, including antecedents in the Song and Yuan dynasties. The book traces how in commemorative landscape painting members of the literati address their peers in a deeply familiar language of values, just as they ... Read more
When is a landscape more than a landscape? This is a richly illustrated study of an important genre of Ming-dynasty Chinese painting in which landscapes are actually disguised portraits that celebrate an individual and his achievements, ambitions, and tastes in an open effort to win recognition, support, and social status. In this unique study, Anne de Coursey Clapp presents a broad view of these commemorative landscape paintings, including antecedents in the Song and Yuan dynasties. The book traces how in commemorative landscape painting members of the literati address their peers in a deeply familiar language of values, just as they ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Series
Publications of the Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691154763
SKU
V9780691154763
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About Anne de Coursey Clapp
Anne de Coursey Clapp is professor emerita of Wellesley College, where she taught East and Southeast Asian art history in the Art Department for more than three decades, retiring in 1999. She is the author of monographs on the Ming dynasty artists Wen Zhengming and Tang Yin.
Reviews for Commemorative Landscape Painting in China
"A detailed and insightful essay on a type of occasional painting popular in later China... In addition to its erudition, this book is a most enjoyable read."
Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies