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The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China
by Cahill, James
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0231081804
- ISBN 13
- 9780231081801
- Seller
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Hopewell, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing.
A series of lectures on how artists in China made their living from the 16th century onwards. James Cahill (1926-2014), an eminent art historian, gave these lectures at Columbia in 1991. He challenges the traditional image of scholar-artists being uninterested in material rewards. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white images.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches; 285 x 220 mm), pp. xi, [3], 187, [7] pages, in quarter cloth over dark green-blue boards, titles to spine, in an illustrated dust jacket (hard cover).
CONDITION: Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket has the ghost of a price sticker on the rear cover, a tiny hole in the front cover and a few small tears along the edges. The front flap appears to be trimmed too closely to the text but is still perfectly readable.
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- Bookseller
- Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2819
- Title
- The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China
- Author
- Cahill, James
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0231081804
- ISBN 13
- 9780231081801
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Chinese Art; Art & Design
- Bookseller catalogs
- Chinese Art;
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About the Seller
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