The Compelling Image

Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting

James Cahill

  • Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Award of the College Art Association of America

1. Chang Hung and the Limits of Representation

2. Tung Ch'i-ch'ang and the Sanction of the Past

3. Wu Pin, Influences from Europe, and the Northern Sung Revival

4. Ch'en Hung-shou: Portraits of Real People and Others

5. Hung-jen and Kung Hsien: Nature Transfigured

6. Wang Yüan-ch'i and Tao-chi: The Culmination of Method and No-Method

Notes

List of Illustrations

Index

  • A photo of the author

James Cahill is Professor of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley.