The figurative works of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652)
Subtitle: authentic voices/expanding markets
By: Tamara Heimarck Bentley
Contributors: Chen, Hongshou, 1598-1652
Series: Visual culture in early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780754666721
Subjects: Art and society; Criticism and interpretation; Human beings in art; History
Other titles: Authentic voices/expanding markets
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Linking Ming-Qing aesthetic changes with the economic setting; title: The authenticity of emotion (Qing) : Chen's romance drama illustrations and paintings of beautiful women; title: The vernacular voice in Chen's water margin playing cards; title: Expanded frames : the late Ming print market; title: The sage and the self : Chen's late-period eremitic figures; title: Chen's painting practice : production, replication, exchange; title: The divergence of profit and virtue : Chen Hongshou's venerating antiquity playing cards; title: Conclusion. Reinventing classical values in a commercial context; title: List of figures; title: Figures.