ISBN 9789971695231
Publisher: NUS Press
Hardback: 216 pages
Pub Date: Jun 2010
US$40.00 |
Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History
James Elkins
This is a provocative essay of reflections on traditional mainstream scholarship on Chinese art as done by towering figures in the field such as James Cahill and Wen Fong. James Elkins offers an engaging and accessible survey of his personal journey encountering and interpreting Chinese art through Western scholars' writings. He argues that the search for optimal comparisons is itself modern, Western interest, and that art history as a discipline is inherently Western in several identifiable senses. Although he concentrates on art history in this book, and on Chinese painting in particular, these issues have implications for Sinology in general, and for wider questions about humanistic inquiry and historical writing.
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