Elegant Debts The Social Art of Wen Zhengming |
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| Author:
| Clunas, Craig |
| ISBN: | 978-1-86189-183-9 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2004 |
| Publisher: | Reaktion Books, Limited
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $149.95 |
Book Description:
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This book takes an innovative approach to one of the great figures of Chinese culture, the writer and painter Wen Zhengming (1470-1559). Renowned as one of the great 'scholar painters' of the Ming dynasty, Wen was enmeshed in a complex web of social obligations, his 'elegant debts' as he called them, which ledto many of his most celebrated works.
This book takes an innovative approach to one of the great figures of Chinese culture, the writer and painter Wen Zhengming (1470-1559). Renowned as one of the great 'scholar painters' of the Ming dynasty, Wen was enmeshed in a complex web of social obligations, his 'elegant debts' as he called them, which ledto many of his most celebrated works.