Sung Hou-mei: Decoded Messages: The Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: During the Ming Dynasty numerous new animal themes were created to convey political and ethical messages current at court. As the result a sophisticated language of Chinese animal painting was developed, employing both the animals’ symbolic associations and homonymic puns. Hou-mei Sung’s exciting rediscovery of some of these lost meanings has led to a full-scale investigation of the evolving…