The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China

by James Cahill

Book Overview

In The Painter's Practice , James Cahill reveals the intricacies of the painter's life with respect to payment and patronage--an approach that is still largely absent from the study of East Asian art. Drawing upon such unofficial archival sources as diaries and letters, Cahill challenges the traditional image of the disinterested amateur scholar-artist, unconcerned with material rewards, that has been developed by China's literati, perpetuated in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231081812
• ISBN13: 9780231081818
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher