TY - BOOK ID - 77943858 TI - The Chinese literati on painting PY - 2012 SN - 9882208746 9789882208742 9789888139705 9888139703 PB - Hong Kong London Hong Kong University Press Eurospan [distributor] DB - UniCat KW - Painting, Chinese. KW - Chinese painting KW - Paintings, Chinese KW - S17/0600 KW - China: Art and archaeology--Calligraphy and painting: general (incl. technic. and esthetic aspects) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77943858 AB - This classic work, first published in 1971, explores the transition in painting styles from the late Sung period to the art of Yuan dynasty literati. Building on the pioneering work of Oswald Siren and James Cahill, Susan Bush's investigations of painting done under the Chin dynasty confirmed the dominance of scholar-artists in the north and their gradual development of scholarly painting traditions, and a related study of Northern Sung writings showed that their theory was shaped as much by the views of their social class as by their artistic aims. Bush's perspective on Sung scholars' art and ER -