Author : James Cahill
Release : 2010
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 576/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pictures for Use and Pleasure by : James Cahill
Download or read book Pictures for Use and Pleasure written by James Cahill. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an outstanding piece of work: timely, essential, authoritative, and original. Cahill throws light on obscure artists, emerging styles and regional traditions, unexplored aspects of cultural life, enigmatic iconographies, and questions of authorship and authenticity, leaving the reader richly informed and full of new ideas."--Susan Nelson, Indiana University "Cahill brings the vast body of 'vernacular' painting into the legitimate venue of art historical criticism, giving connoisseurs, viewers, and readers a more capacious and accurate grasp of the world of Chinese pictorial art."--Susan Mann, author of The Talented Women of the Zhang Family