"Chinese Painting and Its Audiences" by Craig Clunas 1st/1st HC/DJ 2017

Description: "Chinese Painting and Its Audiences" was written by Craig Clunas and published in 2017 by Princeton University Press in conjunction with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. This is a hardcover, first edition, first printing of this excellent and definitive 288-page history of audience reception to Chinese painting from the sixteenth century to the present, written by Clunas, Professor of the History of Art at Oxford University in England, and superbly illustrated in color and black-and-white. From the dustjacket blurb: “What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In ‘Chinese Painting and Its Audiences,’ based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws from a wealth of artistic masterpieces and lesser-known pictures, some of them discussed here in English for the first time, to show how Chinese painting has been understood by a range of audiences over five centuries, from the Ming Dynasty to today. Richly illustrated, ‘Chinese Painting and Its Audiences’ demonstrates that viewers in China and beyond have irrevocably shaped this great artistic tradition. “Arguing that audiences within China were crucially important to the evolution of Chinese painting, Clunas considers how Chinese artists have imagined the reception of their own work. By examining paintings that depict people looking at paintings, he introduces readers to ideal types of viewers: the scholar, the gentleman, the merchant, the nation, and the people. In discussing the changing audiences for Chinese art, Clunas emphasizes that the diversity and quantity of images in Chinese culture make it impossible to generalize definitively about what constitutes Chinese painting. “Exploring the complex relationships between works of art and those who look at them, ‘Chinese Painting and Its Audiences’ sheds new light on how the concept of Chinese painting has been formed and reformed over hundreds of years.” And from the reviews: “Looking at a wide variety of media across a wide swath of time, ‘Chinese Painting and Its Audiences’ repeatedly exposes unexpected ironies that undermine facile assumptions about the Chinese and European art traditions. With this innovative work, Clunas sets a new bar for the global history of art.”—Martin Powers, University of Michigan “Clunas’ globalizing approach undermines the old idea that Westerners can never truly understand Chinese painting.”—John-Paul Stonard, London Review of Books “‘Chinese Painting and Its Audiences’ brims with arresting arguments and flashes of insight familiar to readers of Clunas’s earlier publications. . . . [An] exhilarating book.”—Robert E. Harrist Jr., Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies “With an elegant, welcoming conversational style and clear arguments, this book probes the ramifications of the modern English term ‘Chinese painting.’ Clunas brings to this work his unique combination of deep scholarship and deep knowledge of objects, the history of the art market, and the collection of Chinese art.”—Patricia Berger, University of California, Berkeley Honorable Mention for the 2019 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, “Impressively researched and impeccably illustrated. . . . This book also offers a methodology broadly applicable to all fields of painting history. By analyzing paintings that depict figures looking at paintings, art historians in any number of fields may recover mute histories of painting vividly documented in the medium itself. Thus, even as ‘Chinese Painting and Its Audiences’ seeks to establish Chinese painting on its own terms, it offers its readers methods for recovering and articulating ineffable histories of painting of all times, types, and places.”—Jennifer Purtle, Art HistoryThe book is in fine, collectible condition, with no torn or bent pages, no scratches, stains or inscriptions, no remainder marks, no price-clipping, no bookplate, no ex-library, no book club edition, no flaws of any sort. It is as new.The dustjacket is in equally fine shape and is protected in a clear and removable archival cover.Please see the photos for a fuller description and author profile.Note: Because of the book's weight and value, it will be mailed securely in a box.LG BOX 45PLEASE SEE THE OTHER TITLES NOW LISTED IN MY EBAY STORE: DISTANT VOYAGE BOOKS PAYPAL PREFERRED Will combine shipping. All items are well packed and are normally mailed within two days of payment being received. 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