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Art by the book: painting manuals and the leisure life in late Ming China

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    Painting manuals and the leisure life in late Ming China

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Contents

Chronology of Chinese dynasties -- Introduction. William Shakespeare, a great painter? -- Genre and biography -- Words without images -- Portraits of the characteristic -- Icons of love and marginality -- The art of being artistic -- Coda. The late Ming at the crossroads -- Appendix 1. Locations and editions of late Ming painting manuals -- Appendix 2. Lost manuals and albums of the Ming dynasty.

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    Seattle [Wash.]: University of Washington Press, c2012

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    1550-1650

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    • 9780295991764
    • 0295991763

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