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A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture e-book
Breakout: Chinese Art outside China N7345.6 C55 2006
Chinese Art e-book
Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art e-book
The Arts of China N7340 .S92 2008
Art in Turmoil: The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76 NX583 .A1 A78 2010 and e-book
Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China by
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 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.
The Arts of China by
For the fifth edition of his internationally renowned The Arts of China, Michael Sullivan has thoroughly revised and expanded every chapter of this classic history of Chinese art from the Neolithic period to the present day. This new edition reflects the latest archaeological discoveries, pays greater attention to the art of calligraphy, provides more information on Chan (Zen) art, and takes a close look at contemporary art. New images have been added to almost every chapter: the work now features more than four hundred photographs, maps, and illustrations, with more than two-thirds of them in full color. Written in the engaging and lucid style that is Sullivan's hallmark, The Arts of China is readily accessible to general readers as well as serious students of art history. Sullivan's approach remains true to the way the Chinese themselves view art, providing readers with a sense of the sweep of history through China's dynasties. This organizational strategy makes it easy for readers to understand the distinct characteristics of each period of art and to gain a clearer view of how Chinese art has changed in relation to its historical context. With many improvements that bring it fully up to date, The Arts of China will remain the most comprehensive and widely read introduction to the history of Chinese art.
Avatars and Antiheroes by
Chinese contemporary art is currently enjoying a worldwide boom, fetching record-breaking prices at auction houses around the globe. The country's rapid transition from Communism to consumerism, and the dizzying changes brought about by urbanization, globalization and new technologies have created a fascinating explosion of art overwhelmingly concerned with the search for self-identity in a society that, from Confucius to Mao, has traditionally disregarded individualism for the collective good. Avatars and Antiheroes reflects the schizophrenic
Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World by
The book offers a bridge into the critical understanding of modern Chinese art through its encounter with the world beyond China's borders. David Clarke demonstrates Chinese art's interconnections with Western cultures while exploring its inherited cultural traditions and internal historical change. The first section deals with the cross-cultural trajectories of individual Chinese artists who traveled from China to the West and then returned. The focus then shifts from the movement of individual artists between cultures to the process by which specific genres of Western art have been interpreted by Chinese artists. The final section illuminates the encounter of cultures via visual representations of Macau and Hong Kong.
Fresh Ink by
Contemporary Chinese society has been called a culture at the crossroads of the past and the future, and nowhere is this tension more apparent than in Chinese ink painting today. Artists working in this highly traditional medium draw from a wealth of ancient themes, but must resolve them within contemporary Chinese culture. In Fresh Ink, ten of China's leading contemporary artists engage directly with the past by creating ten new works in response to older masterpieces, ranging from classical Chinese scrolls to a scholar's rock to a drip painting by Jackson Pollock. Their personal visions reflect diverse concerns and influences, whether Xu Bing's play on the absurdly monumental, Qin Feng's system of communicative signs, or the keen eye for society evident in the work of Li Jin, Yu Hong and Liu Xiaodong. An adventurous pairing of contemporary artworks with their forbears, Fresh Ink blurs the boundaries between traditional and contemporary, East and West.
Half the sky : conversations with women artists in China by 
Modern Chinese Artists by
The first biographical dictionary of its kind in any Western language, this pioneering work provides short, information-packed entries for approximately 1,800 Chinese artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In recent years interest in modern Chinese art has spread across the globe. Public and private collections are being formed; courses in modern Chinese art are offered in many universities and museums. At the same time, the number of practicing artists in China and the amount of published material have greatly increased. Michael Sullivan's pathbreaking book Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China, published in 1996, included a biographical index of some eight hundred artists. This volume includes more than twice that number, with entries that have been revised, expanded, and brought up to date. Illustrated with portraits and photographs of more than seventy leading artists, this comprehensive, convenient reference will be an essential tool for anyone interested in the study or collection of modern Chinese art.
Nine Lives: the Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China by Aesthetic Beauty of a Universal Nature: A Survey of the National Palace Museum N3750 .T32 A254 2001
New Museums in China NA6696 .C6 J33 2014
The Henan Museum N3750 .H46 A7 2009
07 Shanghai Art Fair International Contemporary Art Exhibition ND195 .S53 2007
Exhibiting Experimental Art in China N7345 .W814 2000
Miniature Arts of China and Japan N7437 .T54 2010
Out of Shanghai: 31.10.2009 - 10.01.2010, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst Otterndorf N7345.6 .O85 2010
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu: Can't Have It All NX583 .Z9 Y832 2009
Zheng Mian N7345 .W814 2000
Zi Chan Jie Ji Hua Le De Wu Chan Jie Ji = Bourgeoisified Proletariat N7345.6 .Z5 2010
M8 in China: Contemporary Chinese Architects = Zeitgenössische Chinesische Architekten NA1545.6 .M28 2009
A Dealer's Hand: The Chinese Art World Through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi N8600 .E85 2012
A Perpetual Fire: John C. Ferguson and His Quest for Chinese Art and Culture N7343 .N488 2013
Collecting China: The World, China, and a History of Collecting N72 .G55 C66 2011
Building a Revolution Chinese Architecture Since 1980 e-book
Chang'an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture e-book
Chinese Architecture NA1540 .F9 2002
Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts NA1545.5 .C48 2011
Chinese Houses and Gardens e-book
Chinese Vernacular Dwellings NA7448 .Z4313 2011
Contemporary Architecture in China: Urban landscapes e-book
Feng Shui in Chinese Architecture e-book
M8 in China: Contemporary Chinese Architects = Zeitgenössische Chinesische Architekten NA1545.6 .M28 2009
The Shanghai Alleyway House a Vanishing Urban Vernacular NA7520 .B97 2013 and e-book
Art and Place: Essays on Art from a Hong Kong Perspective e-book
Shanghai: Art of the City DS796 .S22 S52 2010
Shanghai Style: Art and Design between the Wars N7347 .S48 P36 2008
Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Popular Culture and Art DS779.23 .S72 2013
Symbols and Rebuses in Chinese Art by
This work catalogues hundreds of symbols in Chinese artistry, and describes each of their meanings. It explains why a depiction of a bat can mean happiness, and why some beautiful images, such as sparrows and pears, are rarely seen.
Ancient Glass Research along the Silk Road e-book
China's Cultural Relics DS715 .L468313 2011
Chinese Cut-paper Animal Designs NK8553.2 .C6 C436 2006
Chinese Cut-paper Designs NK1483 .A1 C46
Sensuous Surfaces the Decorative Object in Early Modern China NK1068 .H39 2010
Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road e-book
The Pilgrim Art Cultures of Porcelain in World History e-book
Chinese Folk Designs: A Collection of 300 Cut-paper Designs Used for Embroidery Together with 160 Chinese Art Symbols and their Meanings NK1483 .A1 H39 1971
Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society e-book
Chinese Calligraphy NK3634 .A2 C4665 2008
Chinese Writing and Calligraphy e-book
Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy NK3634 .A2 O87 2012
The History and Cultural Heritage of Chinese Calligraphy, Printing and Library Work e-book
Aroma of Soil: Review Exhibit of Jinshan China Farmers Paintings over the Past 30 Years ND1047.J56 N527 2006
Drawing Boundaries Architectural Images in Qing China e-book
Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition ND2068 .S44 2010
Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644-1911 ND1043.5 .B755 2014
How to Read Chinese Paintings ND1042 .H43 2008
Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China N7345 .I55 2013
The Chinese Literati on Painting Su Shih (1037-1101) to Tung Ch'i-Ch'ang (1555-1636) e-book
The Fan K'uan Tradition in Chinese Landscape Painting Dissertation (e-version)
The Northern Wei Tomb of Ssu-ma Chin-lung and Early Chinese Figure Painting e-book
Art, Religion, and Politics in Medieval China the Dunhuang Cave of the Zhai Family e-book only
Donors of Longmen Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture e-book
Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia N8193 .C6 R475 2007
Empire of Emptiness Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China e-book
Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850-1850 N8193 .C6 L38 1994
Painting Faith Li Gonglin and Northern Song Buddhist Culture e-book
Picturing Heaven in Early China N8217 .C62 T79 2011
Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China N8199 .T36 C64 2012
Surviving Nirvana Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture e-book
Taoism and the Arts of China N8199 .T3 L58 2000
The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities in Chinese History e-book
Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art NB1912 .B83 M48 2010 and e-book
Art, Myth, and Ritual the Path to Political Authority in Ancient China DS741.65 .C53 1983 and e-book
Art by the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China N72 .S6 P313 2012
Emblems of Empire: Selections from the Mactaggart Art Collection N7343.5 .V64 2009
Empresses, Art, & Agency in Song Dynasty China N5205.7 .C6 L5 2010
Pictures of Tilling and Weaving: Art, Labor and Technology in Song and Yuan China N7343.4 .H366 2011
Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China N7343.5 .C63 2013
The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-century China NX180 .S6 A7516 2012
The Art of Modern China by
In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does it mean to be a Chinese artist in the modern age? This first comprehensive study of modern Chinese art history traces its evolution chronologically and thematically from the Age of Imperialism to the present day. Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen pay particular attention to the dynamic tension between modernity and tradition, as well as the interplay of global cosmopolitanism and cultural nationalism. This lively, accessible, and beautifully illustrated text will serve and enlighten scholars, students, collectors, and anyone with an interest in Asian art and artists.
Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China by
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 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.
A New Thoughtfulness in Contemporary China: Critical Voices in Art and Aesthetics N7345.6 .N47 2011
Art and Artists of Twentieth-century China N7345 .S79 1996
Art in Motion NX456 .H45 2006
ARTiculations: Undefining Chinese Contemporary Art N6538 .C48 A76 2010
Burden or Legacy from the Chinese Cultural Revolution to Contemporary Art e-book
Chinese Art and Its Encounter with the World N7429 .C62 2011 and e-book
Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History N7345 .G5 2014
Contemporary Chinese Art: A History, 1970s>2000s N7345 .W816 2014
Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents N7345 .C66 2010
Crossing China: Land of the Rising Art Scene N7345.6 .G66 2014
Fragmented Reality: Contemporary Art in 21st Century China N7345.6 .L7998 2012
Modernities of Chinese Art N7345 .C538 2010
New China, New Art N7345 .V56 2011
Nine Lives: the Birth of Avant-garde Art in New China ND1048 .S65 2008
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West N7345 .E75 2004
Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 e-book
Semiotic Warfare: A Semiotic Analysis, the Chinese Avant-Garde, 1979-1989 N7345 .K677 2003
Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art N7345.6 .S83 2011 and e-book
The Art of Modern China N7345 .A527 2012
The Distorting Mirror Visual Modernity in China e-book
The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art N7344 .R65 2012
The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic's Adventures in China N7345.6 .P655 2010
Total Modernity and the Avant-garde in Twentieth-century Chinese Art N7345 .G29 2011
Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution DS778.7 .C87 2007
A Story of Ruins Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture e-book
Collecting Objects/excluding People Chinese Subjects and American Visual Culture, 1830-1900 e-book
Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture: Tradition, Modernity, and Globalization N72 .G55 C665 2010
Reinventing the Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in Chinese Art and Visual Culture N72 .H58 R48 2010
Selling Happiness: Calendar Posters and Visual Culture in Early Twentieth-century Shanghai NC1849 .A29 L35 2004
What's the Use of Art? Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context e-book
