Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China

by James Cahill

In this groundbreaking book, James Cahill expands the field of Chinese pictorial art history, opening both scholarly studies and popular appreciation to vernacular paintings, "pictures for use and pleasure." These were works commissioned and appreciated during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by the non-elites of Chinese society, including women. Traditional Chinese collectors, like present-day scholars of Chinese painting, have favored the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520258576
• ISBN13: 9780520258570
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.1" x 10.0"