Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book)

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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 709.510904 EAN: 9780520075566 ISBN: 0520075560 Label: University of California Press Manufacturer: University of California Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 392 Publication Date: 1996-11-15 Publisher: University of California Press Studio: University of California Press
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Editorial Reviews: This visually stunning book focuses on the rebirth of Chinese art in the twentieth century under the influence of Western art and culture. Michael Sullivan, recognized throughout the world as a leading scholar of Chinese art, vividly documents the conflicting pulls of traditional and Western values on Chinese art and provides 364 illustrations, in color and black-and- white, to show the great range of artistic expression and the historical processes that occurred within various movements. A substantial biographical index of twentieth-century Chinese artists is a valuable addition to the text. Sullivan discusses artists and their work against China's background of oppression and relaxation, despair and hope. He expertly conveys the diverse and at times bizarre intertwining of Chinese cultural history and art during this century. Included are the intense debates between traditionalists and reformers, the creation of the first art schools, and the birth of the idea shocking in ethnocentric Chinathat art is a world language that obliterates all frontiers. The scholarly traditions of classical Chinese painting, the belated discovery of Western modernism, the artistic upheaval under Communism, and China's rethinking of the very nature of art all have a place in Sullivan's fascinating history. Michael Sullivan has known many of the major figures in China's modern art movement of the 1930s and 1940s and has also gained the confidence of younger artists who rose to prominence following the 1979 "Peking Spring." This long- awaited bookrichly documented and abundantly illustratedis a capstone to Sullivan's work and will be enthusiastically welcomed by art lovers everywhere.