Description
Book SynopsisProfessor Sullivan, an expert on Chinese art, presents a collection of his papers covering traditional Chinese art and its development over two millennia. He discusses recurring themes, early screen and scroll painting, Ming and Ch'ing emperors' periods, and Western art influences. Additional notes highlight subsequent research.
Table of ContentsPreface
The Heritage of Chinese Art
Some Notes on the Social History of Chinese Art
The Magic Mountain
Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting
Pictorial Art and the Attitude toward Nature in Ancient China
Notes on Early Chinese Screen Painting
On Painting the Yun-t'ai-shan
A Further Note on the Admonitions Scroll
A Forgotten T'ang Master of Landscape Painting
The Excavation of the Royal Tomb of Wang Chien
The Night Market at Yang-ch'eng
The Ch'ing Scholar-Painters and their World
The Chinese Art of Water Printing, Shui-yin
Art and Politics in Seventeenth-century China
Some Possible Sources of European Influence on Late Ming and Early Ch'ing Painting
The Chinese Response to Western Art
Sandrart on Chinese Painting
Chinnery the Portrait Painter
The Barlow Collection of Chinese Bronzes, Jades and Ceramics
Reviews of Books and Exhibitions
Reaching Out
Additional Notes
Index
