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Richard EDWARDS, The Heart of Ma Yuan: The Search for a Southern Song Aesthetic . Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. cxxii + 342 pp. ISBN: 978-988-8028-65-8 (hbk.). $55.00. Roslyn Lee HAMMERS, Pictures of Tilling and Weaving: Art, Labor, and Technology in Song and Yuan China . Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. x + 294 pp. ISBN: 978-988-8028-63-4 (hbk.). $45.00. Shane McCAUSLAND, Zhao Mengfu: Calligraphy and Painting for Khubilai’s China . Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. xxvi + 434 pp. ISBN: 978-988-8028-57-3 (hbk.). $55.00. In 1987, Jerome Silbergeld published a thoughtful assessment of the state of Chinese painting studies that outlined the different approaches to this material that were then current. 1 Among the many threads of scholarship that he identified was the study of pictorial style, which encompassed both connoisseurship and examination of the development of an individual artist. Another was the study of context and patronage, including among the literati and the court. Twenty-five years later, it is striking to find both of these approaches reflected, to a greater or lesser degree, in three new books that consider artists of the Southern Song and/or Yuan dynasties and the socio-political contexts in
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2013
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