Pictures for Use and Pleasure by James Cahill

University of California Press
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.