Beauty Revealed : Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting / essays by James Cahill, Sarah Handler, and Julia M. White ; entries by Chen Fongfong with contributions by Nancy Berliner and Julia M. White.
This book brings together some of the worlds finest "meiren hua" (paintings of beautiful women), a genre of Chinese painting spanning the countrys last imperial dynasty (1644-1912). Often dismissed as decorative or misinterpreted as highbrow portraits of ladies, these enigmatic and relativ...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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[Berkeley] :
University of California, Berkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive,
[2013]
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Main Collection
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ND1460.W65 B43 2013 |
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