Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting brings together some of the world's finest examples of meiren hua (paintings of beautiful women), a largely neglected and misunderstood genre of Chinese painting spanning the country's last imperial dynasty (1644-1912). Often dismissed as decorative or misinterpreted as highbrow portraits of ladies, these enigmatic and relatively unexamined works are the subject of close scholarly scrutiny in this publication. The corresponding exhibition includes works ...
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Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting brings together some of the world's finest examples of meiren hua (paintings of beautiful women), a largely neglected and misunderstood genre of Chinese painting spanning the country's last imperial dynasty (1644-1912). Often dismissed as decorative or misinterpreted as highbrow portraits of ladies, these enigmatic and relatively unexamined works are the subject of close scholarly scrutiny in this publication. The corresponding exhibition includes works from the collection of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive as well as loans from the British Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as a number of other American museums and private collections in England, Sweden and France.
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Add this copy of Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty to cart. $274.95, very good condition, Sold by Salish Sea Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bellingham, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by University of California.
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2013, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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Very Good in a Very Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards with minor fading to the cloth around the edges; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); 2.2 lbs; Painting illustration to the dust jacket with title in off-white lettering; 2013, University of California; 144 pages; "Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting, " by James Cahill, et al.
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Add this copy of Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty to cart. $297.50, very good condition, Sold by Salish Sea Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bellingham, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by University of California.
Edition:
2013, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Publisher:
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Published:
2013
Language:
English
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17919747860
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Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); 2.2 lbs; Painting illustration to the dust jacket with title in off-white lettering; 2013, University of California; 144 pages; "Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting, " by James Cahill, et al.
