The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court

by Leong Ping Foong and Ping Foong

Ink landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and painters of this era produced some of the most celebrated artworks in Chinese history. The Efficacious Landscape addresses how landmark works of this pivotal period first came to be identified as potent symbols of imperial authority and later became objects through which exiled scholars expressed disaffection and dissent. In fulfilling these diverse roles, landscape demonstrated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674417151
• ISBN13: 9780674417151
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 2.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 10.4"