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Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty China. Essays by James Cahill, Sarah Handler, and Julia M. White.  University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2013.

Beauty Revealed  proposes new ways of viewing and understanding the largely neglected and misunderstood genre of later Chinese painting known as meiren hua, beautiful women painting.  The book, published in conjunction with a groundbreaking exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum, is fully illustrated with rare mid-seventeenth to late eighteenth century paintings of women in intimate settings - garden, home, bath, brothel. 

Handler’s essay Alluring Settings for Accomplished Beauties” explains the significance of the visual codes contained in the women’s surroundings.

Photo by Seth Affoumado

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