The Painter From Shanghai
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393065282 (0393065286)
Publish date: March 17th 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
This is a fictionalized account of the life Pan Yuliang, a post-impressionist Chinese painter who was quite controversial in her time—as a woman artist and painter of nudes, including nude self-portraits. Born at the end of the 19th century, she grew up in a time where women were culturally oppres...
This is a book about a painter. And you know what isn’t in it? Pictures! Here are some paintings by Pan Yuliang:You may have noticed that the book cover is pretty generic and recycled. This is especially odd given that the subject of the book painted so many self-portraits:Maybe the people who own t...
Interesting and allegedly true story about the Chinese painter, Pan Yuliang... inspired by a true story anyway. I can't quite make up my mind what I think of it. The first half was brilliant, difficult to put down and rather similar to "Memoirs of a Geisha" in atmosphere. The second half was still i...
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