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Patronage and the Economic Life of the Artist in Eighteenth Century Yangchow Painting

Chen C. Hsu

出版	University of California, Berkeley, 1987
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bDlIAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

In studying the patronage of artists in Chinese history, we encounter the difficulty of the scarcity of textual evidence, especially in dealing with artists of scholarly background. Artists of the eighteenth century, in this aspect, seem to have been more relaxed and outspoken than their predecessors. They discussed the sale or exchange of their art work with less restraint and disclosed the economic aspects of their life more openly. The rise of Yangchow painting in the eighteenth century coincided with the period of greatest prosperity of the city, implying that the available capital invested in art works may have promoted a local school of painting. As eighteenth century Yangchow painting exhibits certain qualities that distinguish it from painting of the previous centuries, we speculate that the taste of the patrons may have influenced the artists' aesthetic choices. Therefore, eighteenth century Yangchow painting offers a good case for studying the pattern of patronage and its relationship with the economic life of the artist, as well as its influence on the style of painting.