The Efficacious Landscape by Ping Foong

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Ink landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and Song painters created some of the most celebrated artworks in Chinese history. Foong Ping shows how landmark works of this era came to be identified first as potent symbols of imperial authority and later as objects by which exiled scholars expressed disaffection and dissent.

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The Efficacious Landscape by Ping Foong

Ink landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and Song painters created some of the most celebrated artworks in Chinese history. Foong Ping shows how landmark works of this era came to be identified first as potent symbols of imperial authority and later as objects by which exiled scholars expressed disaffection and dissent.
Foong Ping is Foster Foundation Curator of Chinese Art at the Seattle Art Museum and Affiliated Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Washington.
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ISBN 13 9780674417151
ISBN 10 0674417151
Title The Efficacious Landscape
Author Ping Foong
Series Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Harvard University, Asia Center
Year published 2015-07-13
Number of pages 318
Prizes Nominated for Joseph Levenson Book Prize 2017, Nominated for ICAS Book Prize 2017
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.