Why Chinese painting is history.

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: Fong, Wen C. | Copyright information

In her article "Japanese Art History 2001: The State and Stakes of Research," Professor Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan examined the current state of Japanese art scholarship and noted that "up through the 1990s, many senior scholars were caught in a time warp of nineteenth-century notions about style and aesthetic value on the one hand and art as the expression of spirit or nation on the other." (1) Clearly, by the early twenty-first century, any such suspected link between art and natio...

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