Framing Famous Mountains: Grand Tour and Mingshan Paintings in Sixteenth-Century China

by Arthur C. Danto, Hans-Georg Moeller, Li-Tsui Flora Fu, et al.

Mingsha, which literally means "famous mountains", refers to a group of mountains in China that have been set apart for special veneration since ancient times. Over the centuries, the "famous mountains" as a conceptual term has been continually (re)invented, (re)framed and (re)appropriated by different ideological systems. Treating landscape painting as yet another framing system, in both the symbolic and material sense, this book examines sixteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9629963299
• ISBN13: 9789629963293
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"