Intimacy and Painting in Ming China
Craig Clunas considers what we can learn of the society of Ming China by looking at how paintings were used as gifts.
Does a work of art reflect social experience, or does it have a role in making it? This is an issue which has been of dominating interest to art historians for the last thirty years, and which has increasingly attracted historians too, as visual sources of all kinds come more and more to be seen as part of the historian’s resources in an investigation of the past.
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