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Handbook of the Colour Print in China 1600-1800
Handbook of the Colour Print in China 1600-1800 is a ground-breaking volume of collected research into colour woodblock printed imagery produced in early modern China. The emergence and development of colour woodblock imagery occurred first in book illustrations and then in single-sheet prints.
Leading scholars of Chinese print culture trace the emergence of a sophisticated and fully developed colour woodblock print technology between the late Ming and mid-Qing. This volume examines the impact of colour prints on Qing visual culture through interdisciplinary studies investigating literary and artistic contexts, social and economic histories, and dating through European inventoried collections.
Richly illustrated with full-colour reproductions, this volume is an essential contribution to the future study of Chinese print and book culture.
Leading scholars of Chinese print culture trace the emergence of a sophisticated and fully developed colour woodblock print technology between the late Ming and mid-Qing. This volume examines the impact of colour prints on Qing visual culture through interdisciplinary studies investigating literary and artistic contexts, social and economic histories, and dating through European inventoried collections.
Richly illustrated with full-colour reproductions, this volume is an essential contribution to the future study of Chinese print and book culture.
Anne Farrer PhD (1984) is a research fellow of the China Academy of Art and the Muban Educational Trust, specialising in Chinese print culture. A former curator at the British Museum, and senior lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art – London.
Kevin McLoughlin PhD (2006), University of Sussex, is a curator and art historian of China. He has published on Chinese print culture, Ming visual culture, collection histories, and modern Chinese painters. He has translated texts on Chinese furniture, and print culture.
Kevin McLoughlin PhD (2006), University of Sussex, is a curator and art historian of China. He has published on Chinese print culture, Ming visual culture, collection histories, and modern Chinese painters. He has translated texts on Chinese furniture, and print culture.
"... this beautifully-produced handbook will bring pleasure and education to all those interested in the arts of the late Ming and early Qing. The essay authors, and the editors, deserve praise for producing a volume which is already an essential reference work for scholars of Chinese art, books and printing history." - Beth McKillop, in: The Oriental Ceramic Society Newsletter, no. 30 (May 2022)
"This is a welcome and sumptuously illustrated collection of studies of color printing in China from late-Ming to mid-Qing. First off, Brill is to be commended for constantly raising the level of the quality of its illustrations in publications, of which this is a good example. [...] Unquestionably, there is much that is new on the varied subjects dealt with in these essays, and considerable existing information has been enhanced and augmented by the authors, all of whom are to be congratulated." - J. S. Edgren, Princeton University, in: East Asian Publishing and Society, Vol. 13, Issue 2 (September 2023), pp.171-176
"This is a welcome and sumptuously illustrated collection of studies of color printing in China from late-Ming to mid-Qing. First off, Brill is to be commended for constantly raising the level of the quality of its illustrations in publications, of which this is a good example. [...] Unquestionably, there is much that is new on the varied subjects dealt with in these essays, and considerable existing information has been enhanced and augmented by the authors, all of whom are to be congratulated." - J. S. Edgren, Princeton University, in: East Asian Publishing and Society, Vol. 13, Issue 2 (September 2023), pp.171-176
Undergraduate and post-graduate students; historians and art historians; specialists in the field of the East Asian print, including the Japanese and Korean print; and university and academic libraries and institutions.