The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China (Bampton Lectures in America) - Hardcover

Cahill, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231081804 ISBN 13: 9780231081801

Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr, 1994

Synopsis

Discusses the economic, political, and social conditions of artists in China, describing their place in its hierarchical structure

About this title

About the Author:

James Cahill is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley.

From Library Journal:

Cahill, a prolific and well-respected scholar of Chinese painting, has adapted a series of lectures he gave at Columbia to create this readable and interesting account of the conditions of artistic production in historical China. Cahill's argument is that the view of Chinese painters as scholar-literati, which has been accepted as accurate by Chinese and Western scholars, needs to be re-examined in light of the historical record. Among the issues raised by Cahill are the sale of paintings by literati, studio production, and ghostpainting of works signed by masters. Although the essays refer to previous scholarship, they are written clearly enough to be followed by readers with minimal prior knowledge of Chinese painting. This is an important book that will be a useful acquisition for virtually any library with Chinese art holdings.
Kathryn W. Finkelstein, M.Ln., Cincinnati, Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0231081804
• ISBN 13: 9780231081801
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 187