17th-Century Chinese Paintings From the Tsao Family Collection
by Little, Stephen (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- NF/NF
- ISBN 10
- 379135521X
- ISBN 13
- 9783791355214
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About This Item
Los Angeles: LACMA, 2016. Hardcover. NF/NF. Plum cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Ivory illustrated dj with black lettering and French folds. 668 pp. with color images throughout. Heavy at 8 pounds and will require extra postage. A rare collection of Chinese paintings is magnificently presented in this book, which explores a politically turbulent yet creatively dynamic period in China's history. Comprising 130 paintings from the 17th century, the Tsao Family Collection is singularly comprehensive, including works by nearly all of the most important Chinese painters of the period. This book features 16 works by Dong Qichang, the most protean Chinese painter of the last 500 years; paintings by masters such as Gong Xian, Hongren, Zhu Da, Daoji, Wang Hui, and Wang Yuanqi; and extremely rare works by lesser-known artists, scholars, officials, and Buddhist monks. Divided into sections that encompass both the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty, this volume also includes fascinating essays on a number of themes, such as the function of landscape in Chinese culture, the political uses of painting in 17th-century China, the relationship of Chinese painting to poetry, the flourishing of Buddhist and Daoist studies among late Ming and early Qing literati, and orthodoxy and painting of the era. Rounding out the volume are new and authoritative interpretations of the Tsao Collection written by leading scholars and remarkable new translations by Jonathan Chaves, Ronald Egan, and others, of the Chinese poems and prose texts inscribed on the paintings and calligraphic works in the exhibition.
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
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- Title
- 17th-Century Chinese Paintings From the Tsao Family Collection
- Author
- Little, Stephen (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - NF/NF
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 379135521X
- ISBN 13
- 9783791355214
- Publisher
- LACMA
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- Asian Art; Tsao Family Collection; Chinese Paintings ; Tsao Family Collection ; ;
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