Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format were widely reprinted and disseminated in a number of contemporary publications. Focusing on Zhou's work, Art by the Book describes how such publications accommodated the cultural taste and demands of the general public, ...
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Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format were widely reprinted and disseminated in a number of contemporary publications. Focusing on Zhou's work, Art by the Book describes how such publications accommodated the cultural taste and demands of the general public, and shows how painting manuals functioned as a form in which everything from icons of popular culture to graphic or literary cliche was presented to both gratify and shape the sensibilities of a growing reading public. As a special commodity of early modern China, when cultural standing was measured by a person's command of literati taste and lore, painting manuals provided nonelite readers with a device for enhancing social capital.
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Add this copy of Art By the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life to cart. $26.50, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by University of Washington Press.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
Add this copy of Art By the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life to cart. $34.00, very good condition, Sold by Great Northern Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by University of Washington Press.
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Very Good + in very good + jacket. (A China Program Book) "Park shows how a world of social meaning is evident in the literary subgenre of painting manuals..." [from publisher] Includes16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color), bibliographical references, and index. A clean unmarked copy.
Add this copy of Art By the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life to cart. $62.07, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by University of Washington Press.
