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The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China (Hardcover)
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The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Art History
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This book examines the agrarian labor genre paintings based on the
Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were commissioned by
successive Chinese emperors. Furthermore, this book analyzes the
genre's imagery as well as the poems in their historical context
and explains how the paintings contributed to distinctively
cosmopolitan Qing imagery that also drew upon European visual
styles. Roslyn Lee Hammers contends that technologically-informed
imagery was not merely didactic imagery to teach viewers how to
grow rice or produce silk. The Qing emperors invested in paintings
of labor to substantiate the permanence of the dynasty and to
promote the well-being of the people under Manchu governance. The
book includes English translations of the poems of the Pictures of
Tilling and Weaving as well as other documents that have not been
brought together in translation. The book will be of interest to
scholars working in art history, Chinese history, Chinese studies,
history of science and technology, book history, labor history, and
Qing history.
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