The Painter's Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China
- ISBN-10
- 0231081812
- ISBN-13
- 9780231081818
- Category
- Art patronage
- Pages
- 187
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Author
- James Cahill
Description
His work fills in the hitherto unexplored social and economic contexts in which painters worked, revealing the details of how painters in China actually made their living from the sixteenth century onward.
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