by William Watson, Chuimei Ho · Yale University Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780300107357
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«The Arts of China After 1620» is the art history essay by William Watson and Chuimei Ho, published by Yale University Press in hardback (320 pages, in English).
The volume studies Chinese art after 1620: painting, sculpture, ceramics, glass, jade, ivory and textiles, and analyses the rise of the decorative arts during the reigns of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. It examines period styles, phases of archaism, Buddhist art, the role of the imperial workshops and Qianlong's aesthetic innovations, as well as palace architecture and garden design. It concludes with the development of trade between East and West and its effects on Chinese arts and crafts.
Work in the Yale University Press Pelican History of Art series, published in 2007. The Google Books record indicates that this volume forms part of a three-part series devoted to the art, architecture and objects of China.
Aimed at readers interested in art history and the material culture of China's Qing dynasty, particularly painting, ceramics and the decorative arts.
William Watson, Baron Watson, was a Scottish lawyer and Conservative Party politician. He was Lord Advocate, the most senior Law Officer in Scotland, from 1876 to 1880, and was then appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
