Beauty Revealed

Berkeley, California: University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, , 2013. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Large Octavo in blue cloth, gilt titles; 125 pp: illustrations; 29 cm Fine, a very clean and sound copy. No jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780971939714

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