The Painter's Practice : : How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China / / James Cahill.
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 th...
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Cahill, James, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Painter's Practice : How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China / James Cahill. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1995] ©1995 1 online resource (187 p.) : 117 illus text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- One. Adjusting Our Image of the Chinese Artist -- Two. The Painter's Livelihood -- THREE The Painter's Studio -- Four. The Painter's Hand -- Notes -- Bibliography (Works in English) -- Illustrations -- Inedx restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 conventional biographies, and abetted by the artists themselves. His work fills in the hitherto unexplored social and economic contexts in which painters worked, revealing the details of how painters in China actually made their living from the sixteenth century onward. Considering the marketplace as well as the studio, Cahill reviews the practices and working conditions of artists outside the Imperial Court such as the employment of assistants and the use of sketchbooks and prints by earlier artists for sources of motifs. As loose, flamboyant brushwork came into vogue, Cahill argues, these highly imitable styles ironically facilitated the forger's task, flooding the market with copies, sometimes commissioned and signed by the artists themselves. In tracing the great shift from seeing the painting as a picture to a concentration on the painter's hand, Cahill challenges the archetype of the scholar-artist and provides an enlightened perspective that profoundly changes the way we interpret familiar paintings. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Art patronage China History. Painters Economic conditions. Painters Social conditions. Painters China Economic conditions. Painters China Social conditions. Painting, Chinese Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912. Painting, Chinese Ming-Qing dynasties. ART / History / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package 9783110649680 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 9783110442489 print 9780231081818 https://doi.org/10.7312/cahi08180 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231522007 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231522007.jpg |
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