Beauty Revealed
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| ISBN-10 | : UCSD:31822040881849 |
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| Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
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Download or read book Beauty Revealed written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together some of the worlds finest "meiren hua" (paintings of beautiful women), a genre of Chinese painting spanning the countrys last imperial dynasty (1644-1912). Often dismissed as decorative or misinterpreted as highbrow portraits of ladies, these enigmatic and relatively unexamined works are the subject of close scholarly scrutiny in this publication.