... of Chinese art. To take such a deliberately oblique perspective on abstract art's history, it hopes to lay bare some of the cultural closures that are often found in discussions of artistic modernity, and offers a more globalized perspective than is frequently the case. Kandinsky Wassily Hockney David Lui...

... explanation, so that in Chinese art history — unlike in the fine arts history and other kinds of history of the past — the male right to control discourse will never again belittle and erase the value of female creativity in an attempt to continue to maintain the myth of male greatness and female...

..., celebrity, and urban sojourner. Focusing on industrially produced images, mass advertisements, and other hitherto neglected sources, the book offers a new interpretation of late Qing visual culture at a watershed moment in the history of modern Chinese art....

... Ralph Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente Nelson Gallery Parsons Harold Peterson Frederick Princeton University Art Museum Tucci Giuseppe Warner Langdon Sirén Rose Sculpture Painting Cave temples Architecture Dealers of Chinese art China Art Photography Osvald Sirén...

...This chapter discusses the friendship of Fou Lei and Huang Binhong, which can be linked to Chinese art. Binhong believed that it would take years before his art would be understood, and thanks to the Cultural Revolution, there are more practitioners of brush-and-ink painting than oil painting...

... in 1910 after his vacation marks the beginning of an intensification of Stewart Lockhart's interest in Chinese art. While building up his collection of paintings, he did not lessen his devotion to numismatics, and his already impressive collection of coins continued to grow. Britain Carpmael Ernest...

...This chapter considers the place of the body in Chinese art. It begins by identifying in a somewhat schematic way various defining characteristics of literati painting and calligraphy, the art of the social elite in pre-modern China. The chapter then considers, with greater historical focus...