The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting

by James Cahill

Book Overview

The Compelling Image will delight the art-lover who does not yet realize that Chinese painting can be as original and moving as El Greco or C zanne. With a graceful authority, James Cahill explores the radiant painting of that tumultuous era when the collapse of the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China dramatically changed the lives and thinking of artists and intellectuals.

The brilliant masters of the seventeenth century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674152808
• ISBN13: 9780674152809
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 11.7"