TY - BOOK ID - 78716566 TI - Art by the book : painting manuals and the leisure life in late Ming China PY - 2012 SN - 0295807032 9780295807034 9780295991764 0295991763 PB - Seattle, Washington ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press, DB - UniCat KW - Art and society KW - Painting, Chinese KW - Chinese painting KW - Paintings, Chinese KW - Art KW - Art and sociology KW - Society and art KW - Sociology and art KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - China KW - Social life and customs KW - Anleitung KW - Maltechnik KW - Ästhetik KW - Tuschmalerei KW - China. KW - Handbuch KW - Malerei KW - Painting, Chinese. KW - Manners and customs. KW - Art and society. KW - ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES KW - ART KW - Ceremonies KW - Customs, Social KW - Folkways KW - Social customs KW - Traditions KW - Usages KW - Civilization KW - Ethnology KW - Etiquette KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Art, Occidental KW - Art, Visual KW - Art, Western (Western countries) KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Visual KW - Fine arts KW - Iconography KW - Occidental art KW - Visual arts KW - Western art (Western countries) KW - Arts KW - Aesthetics KW - Books. KW - General. KW - China (Republic : 1949- ) KW - Cina KW - Kinë KW - Cathay KW - Chinese National Government KW - Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu KW - Republic of China (1912-1949) KW - Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) KW - Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) KW - Kina (China) KW - National Government (1912-1949) KW - China (Republic : 1912-1949) KW - People's Republic of China KW - Chinese People's Republic KW - Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo KW - Central People's Government of Communist China KW - Chung yang jen min cheng fu KW - Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo KW - Central Government of the People's Republic of China KW - Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo KW - Zhong hua ren min gong he guo KW - Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika KW - Činská lidová republika KW - RRT KW - Republik Rakjat Tiongkok KW - KNR KW - Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika KW - Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah KW - RRC KW - Kitaĭ KW - Kínai Népköztársaság KW - Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku KW - Erets Sin KW - Sin KW - Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn KW - P.R. China KW - PR China KW - PRC KW - P.R.C. KW - Chung-kuo KW - Zhongguo KW - Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) KW - Zhong guo KW - Chine KW - République Populaire de Chine KW - República Popular China KW - Catay KW - VR China KW - VRChina KW - 中國 KW - 中国 KW - 中华人民共和国 KW - Jhongguó KW - Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus KW - Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus KW - Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls KW - BNKhAU KW - БНХАУ KW - Khi︠a︡tad KW - Kitad KW - Dumdadu Ulus KW - Dumdad Uls KW - Думдад Улс KW - Kitajska KW - Art, Primitive KW - Anleitungen KW - Ratgeber KW - Einführung KW - Holztafelmalerei KW - Tafelbild KW - Tafelmalerei KW - Gemälde KW - Malen KW - Künste KW - Kunstästhetik KW - Kunstphilosophie KW - Kunsttheorie KW - Philosophische Ästhetik KW - Kunstanschauung KW - Kunstauffassung KW - Philosophie KW - Ästhetizismus KW - Ästhetisches Handeln KW - Ästhetisches Verhalten KW - Ästhetisches Ideal KW - Ästhetisches Objekt KW - Ästhetisches Urteil KW - Künstlerische Technik KW - Malmaterial KW - Theorie KW - Technik KW - 1949 KW - -BNKhAU KW - Chung-hua min kuo KW - Jhonggu KW - Khi͡atad KW - Kin KW - Kita KW - Kitaĭskai͡a Narodnai͡a Respublika KW - National Government KW - Republic KW - Republic of China KW - Zhonghuaminguo KW - Rotchina KW - Zhongguo-Diguo KW - Kaiserreich Zhongguo KW - Zhonghua-minguo KW - Chung-hua-min-kuo KW - Zhonghua-Renmin-Gongheguo KW - Kaiserreich China KW - Shinkoku KW - Chung-hua-jen-min-kung-ho-kuo KW - Zhonghua KW - Volksrepublik China KW - Zhonghua renmin gongheguo KW - République populaire de Chine KW - Kytajsʹkaja Narodnaja Respublika KW - Chinese People’s Republic KW - Chinesen KW - Taiwan KW - Künstlerische Technik UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78716566 AB - "Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format were widely reprinted and disseminated in a number of contemporary publications. Focusing on Zhou's work, Art by the Book describes how such publications accommodated the cultural taste and demands of the general public, and shows how painting manuals functioned as a form in which everything from icons of popular culture to graphic or literary cliche was presented to both gratify and shape the sensibilities of a growing reading public. As a special commodity of early modern China, when cultural standing was measured by a person's command of literati taste and lore, painting manuals provided nonelite readers with a device for enhancing social capital ER -