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The art of the Chinese picture-scroll

The art of the Chinese picture-scroll
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ISBN 1789147964 (hardcover)
9781789147964 (hardcover)
Author McCausland, Shane 1968-
Title The art of the Chinese picture-scroll / Shane McCausland
Publisher London : Reaktion Books, 2023
Physical desc. 288 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm.
Note Illustrated endpapers.
CB illustrations: pages 148-149, plate 109 (J 1125.2); page 203, plate 153 (C 1108); pages 210-211, plate 164 (J 1158.1).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275) and index.
Contents Introduction -- On origins and uses over the first millennium -- Inscribing the artist and the collector: the picture-scroll in the Song-Liao-Jin period -- Handscrolls in Mongol palaces -- Musing on shadows: reading the Ming picture-scroll -- Qing: reading the 'Baroque' handscroll -- Modernist uses of the Chinese picture-scroll -- The medium of silent poetry in the late modern world.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- C 1108
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- J 1125
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- J 1158
Painting, Chinese
Scrolls, Chinese
Calligraphy, Chinese
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