Pictures for Use and Pleasure by James Cahill
Product Specifications
- Title: Pictures for Use and Pleasure by James Cahill
- Author: James Cahill
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Binding: Hardback
- History of art art & design styles
- No. of pages: 280
- Dimensions (approx. mm): 257 x 216 x 31
Product Description
Traditional Chinese collectors like present-day scholars of Chinese painting have favored the 'literati' paintings of the Chinese male elite disparaging vernacular works often intended as decorations or produced to mark a special occasion. This book deals with the field of Chinese pictorial art history.