A Short History Of Chinese Art
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few civilisations have produced an artistic tradition as vast, as varied, and as breathtaking in its continuity as China's — and Michael Sullivan's A Short History of Chinese Art is the essential guide to understanding it. From the ritual bronzes of the Shang dynasty to the refined brushwork of the Song masters, Sullivan charts the full sweep of Chinese artistic achievement across millennia, grounding each era in its cultural, philosophical, and political context with the precision of a scholar and the fluency of a gifted writer. Sullivan, one of the twentieth century's foremost Western authorities on Chinese art, brings both rigorous academic depth and genuine aesthetic sensitivity to his subject. His prose illuminates not just what Chinese artists made, but why they made it — how Confucian ideals, Buddhist spirituality, and Daoist naturalism shaped the visual language of an entire civilisation. For anyone seeking to understand the principles that underpin one of the world's great artistic heritages, this compact but authoritative volume raises as many fascinating questions as it answers.
Author: Michael Sullivan
Format: Paperback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few civilisations have produced an artistic tradition as vast, as varied, and as breathtaking in its continuity as China's — and Michael Sullivan's A Short History of Chinese Art is the essential guide to understanding it. From the ritual bronzes of the Shang dynasty to the refined brushwork of the Song masters, Sullivan charts the full sweep of Chinese artistic achievement across millennia, grounding each era in its cultural, philosophical, and political context with the precision of a scholar and the fluency of a gifted writer. Sullivan, one of the twentieth century's foremost Western authorities on Chinese art, brings both rigorous academic depth and genuine aesthetic sensitivity to his subject. His prose illuminates not just what Chinese artists made, but why they made it — how Confucian ideals, Buddhist spirituality, and Daoist naturalism shaped the visual language of an entire civilisation. For anyone seeking to understand the principles that underpin one of the world's great artistic heritages, this compact but authoritative volume raises as many fascinating questions as it answers.