{"product_id":"writing-modern-chinese-art-9780932216625","title":"Writing Modern Chinese Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe complexity and confusion of styles and intentions are true characters of modern Chinese art. This book explores the developments of Chinese art in the previous century, applying theories to question and reinterpret concepts that are normally taken for granted. It demonstrates how modern Chinese art history has been - and can be - written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDirector's Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Preface and Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Modernization, Periodization, Canonization in Twentieth-Century Chinese Painting \/ Jerome Silbergeld\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I: Becoming Modern\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. When Was Modern Chinese Art?: A Short History of Chinese Modernism \/ Ralph Croizier\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Fundamental Changes in the Study of Chinese Painting: 1796-1948 \/ Qingli Wan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II: Becoming Chinese\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Concept to Context: The Theoretical Transformation of Ink Painting into China's National Art in the 1920s and 1930s \/ Kuiyi Shen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Art under Mao, \"Cai Guoqiang's Maksimov Collection,\" and China's Twentieth Century \/ Julia Andrews\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Rediscovering China in Japan: Fu Baoshi's Ink Painting \/ Tamaki Maeda\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"Two Wangs\" in New York: Tradition and Modernization in the Diaspora \/ Arnold Chang\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III: Becoming Art\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. What Is a Masterpiece?: Historiographical Anxieties and Classifications of Painting in Modern China \/ Aida Yuen Wong\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. How Good Are Modern Chinese Landscapes?: Genre, Evaluation, and Works by the \"Two Stones\" \/ Josh Yiu\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. The History and Collecting of Twentieth-Century Chinese Art: Michael Sullivan's Pioneering Survey \/ Zaixin Hong\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Exhibition Materials\u003cbr\u003e Text panels and labels for the exhibition \"Of Nature and Friendship: Modern Chinese Painting from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seattle Art Museum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406529241431,"sku":"9780932216625","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780932216625.jpg?v=1730496169","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-modern-chinese-art-9780932216625","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}