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Exhibition, August 27 - October 9, 1994, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas; November 30, 1994 - January 29, 1995, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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A fine sourcebook on Ming art and culture
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Despite the importance of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652) as an artist and scholar of the Ming period, until now no full length study in English has focused on his work. Author Tamara H. Bentley takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach, treating Chen's oeuvre in relation to literary themes and economic changes, and linking these larger concerns to visual analyses. Considering Chen's paintings and prints alongside Chen's romance drama commentaries and prefaces and his collected writings (particularly poetry), Bentley sheds new light not only on Chen, but also on an important cultural moment in the first half of the seventeenth century. Through analysis of Chen's figure paintings and print designs...