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Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Stanford Univ Pr
Publication date July 1, 2001
Pages 216
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780804742627
ISBN-10 0804742626
Dimensions 0.75 by 9.75 by 12.75 in.
Weight 3.65 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $75.00
Other format details university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Despite their compelling presence and often exquisite quality, Chinese ancestor portraits have never been studied as a genre. This richly illustrated book (85 portraits in full color, 81 in black and white) is the first to explore in depth the artistic, historical, and religious significance of these remarkable paintings and to place them in context with other types of commemorative portraiture. Since the sixteenth century, portraits were commissioned in China in great number and variety. Depictions of individual men and women range from formal, iconic poses to the very casual, offer fascinating glimpses of Chinese life and culture. The riveting, realistic ancestor portraits supremely powerful likenesses were important objects of veneration, and the practice of making memorial portraits continued into the twentieth century, when paintings were gradually replaced by photographs.

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780070202917 Book cover for 9780070202924 Book cover for 9780804742627
 
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from Stanford Univ Pr (July 1, 2001)
9780804742627 | details & prices | 216 pages | 9.75 × 12.75 × 0.75 in. | 3.65 lbs | List price $75.00
About: Despite their compelling presence and often exquisite quality, Chinese ancestor portraits have never been studied as a genre.
With Dan L. Longo (other contributor), Tinsley Randolph Harrison (other contributor), Anthony S. Fauci (other contributor), Stephen L. Hauser (other contributor), Dennis L. Kasper (other contributor), Kurt J. Isselbacher (other contributor), Jean D. Wilson (other contributor), Joseph B. Martin (other contributor), Eugene Braunwald (other contributor) | from McGraw-Hill (August 1, 1997); titled "Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine"
9780070202917 | details & prices | 2569 pages | 9.25 × 11.00 × 3.25 in. | 8.90 lbs | List price $125.00
This edition also contains Harrison''s Principles of Internal Medicine
With Anthony S. Fauci (other contributor), Tinsley Randolph Harrison (other contributor) | 14th edition from McGraw-Hill (August 1, 1997); titled "Harrison''s Principles of Internal Medicine"
9780070202924 | details & prices | List price $20.01
This edition also contains Harrison''s Principles of Internal Medicine
Paperback
Book cover for 9780804742634
 
from Stanford Univ Pr (July 1, 2001)
9780804742634 | details & prices | 216 pages | 9.75 × 12.50 × 0.75 in. | 3.00 lbs | List price $39.50
About: A lavish pictorial exploration of the artistic, historical, and religious significance of Chinese ancestor portraits commissioned during the Ming and Qing dynasties offers a particular study of the collections from the Arthur M.

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