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Robert E. Harrist, Jr.
Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China: Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin.
Publisher: Princeton U.P., 1998.
ISBN 0691016097;
ISBN-13: 9780691016092.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 196x258x18mm.
Page count: xvii,164 plus 72pp.
Main language: English.
Overal condition good: dustjacket a little worn at the edges and corners, a little scuffed and grubby overall, with some scratches on its back panel; the book itself has some mild wear to the boards but doesn’t look heavily used, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £40.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher lists this title as out of print]
Weight without packaging: 900g.

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Contents: Intro. — Poetics of private life; Face behind the fan — Li Gonglin & northern Song painting; A walk through the Longmian mountains; Transformed landscape — place & persona in northern Song gardens; Evoking the past — memories of Wang Wei & Lu Hong; Mountain Villa & languages of landscape in 11th‑c. China; Conclusion — painting & private life.
Appendix: Extant copies of Mountain Villa.

Illustrations: 72 pages of plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of text section
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: Chinese characters
Bibliography: 12pp
Index: yes

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See also | Art history | China |
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