Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 209 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 1080 g
Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 209 mm x 297 mm, Gewicht: 1080 g
ISBN: 978-0-520-07556-6
Verlag: University of California Press
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 China—that 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 book—richly documented and abundantly illustrated—is a capstone to Sullivan's work and will be enthusiastically welcomed by art lovers everywhere.