Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China

by Craig Clunas

Book Overview

The sixteenth century in China was a period of rapid and unprecedented economic expansion. The period also saw a parallel expansion in the sphere of cultural production, as a growing class of consumers of luxury goods benefited from the formation of one of the classic early modern consumer societies. Pictures were a major source of consumable luxury at this period: pictures not only in the form of independently circulating images classifiable as "art,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691057613
• ISBN13: 9780691057613
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 10.0"