Hua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China (Brill, 2020)
Author Kristen Loring Brennan discusses painting and social status in eighteenth-century China.
key themes
- Gender and identity
- Calligraphy, brush arts, and word-and-image
- Landscape, gardens, and environment
- Art market and commerce
- Social status
- Canon
further reading
- Ginger Cheng-chi Hsu, A Bushel of Pearls: Painting for Sale in Eighteenth-century Yangchow (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001)
- Tobie S. Meyer-Fong, Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003)
- Yeewan Koon, A Defiant Brush: Su Renshan and the Politics of Painting in Early 19th-Century Guangdong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2014)
East Asian Art History 