Admonitions Scroll

by Jan Stuart

Overview

This accessible and beautifully illustrated book; explores the context and meaning of the painted scenes and accompanying text of the Admonitions Scroll and provides a fascinating insight into Chinese culture and history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714151083
Publisher:	British Museum Press
Publication date:	10/31/2014
Series:	Object in Focus
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Jan Stuart is Keeper of the Department of Asia at the British Museum. Her area of academic specialty is Chinese art and material culture with special emphasis on the Ming and Qing dynasties (fourteenth to early twentieth century). Research interests include paintings, decorative arts, garden design and Buddhist sculpture. Before joining the Museum in 2006, she was a curator of Chinese art at the Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, which together constitute the national museum of Asian art in the United States.