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Harvard East Asian Monographs 372

The Efficacious Landscape

On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court

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$79.95 • £69.95 • €72.95

ISBN 9780674417151

Publication Date: 07/13/2015

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318 pages

7 x 10 inches

63 color illustrations, 12 line illustrations

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  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note to the Reader
  • Chronologies
  • Introduction
  • I. Ruling Images: Landscape Painting at the Northern Song Court
    • 1. Ink Landscape in the Imperial City
    • 2. The Ritual Context for Painting
    • 3. Ink Landscape as Cultural Capital at Court
  • II. Intimate Scenes: Ramifications of New Social Dimensions in Landscape
    • 4. Guo Xi’s Intimate Landscapes
    • 5. The Small Canon
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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