Fruitful Sites by Craig Clunas
Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. Based on contemporary Chinese sources, this illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming Dynasty China (1369-1644) in the social and cultural history of the day.
Craig Clunas is Percival David Chair of Chinese Art at SOAS, London and is Professor of History of Art at the University of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. He has published extensively on the culture of the Ming period and is the author of Superfluous Things (1991), Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China (Reaktion Books, 1996), Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China (Reaktion Books, 1997), Art in China (1997), Elegant Debts: The Social Art of Wen Zhengming (Reaktion, 2004), and Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644 (Reaktion, 2007).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780948462887 |
| ISBN 10 | 0948462884 |
| Title | Fruitful Sites |
| Author | Craig Clunas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 1996-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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