Research Catalog

Title

The arts of China / Michael Sullivan with Shelagh Vainker.

Author

Sullivan, Michael, 1916-2013

Publication

• Oakland, CA : University of California Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Vainker, S. J.

Description

xv, 353 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 26 cm

Summary

"Internationally renowned and a crucial classroom text, The Arts of China has been revised and expanded by the late Michael Sullivan, with Shelagh Vainker. This new, sixth, edition has an emphasis on Chinese art history, not as an assemblage of related topics, but as a continuous story. With updated attributions and dating throughout and a revised bibliography, it reflects the latest archaeological discoveries, as well as giving increased attention to modern and contemporary art and to calligraphy throughout China's history, with additional discussions of work by women artists. Visual enhancements include all new maps, and approximately one hundred new color illustrations--bringing the total to well over four hundred color illustrations. Written in the engaging and lucid style that is Sullivan's hallmark, The Arts of China is readily accessible to general readers as well as to serious students of art history. Sullivan's approach remains true to the way the Chinese themselves view art, providing readers with a sense of the sweep of history through China's dynasties. This organizational strategy makes it easy for readers to understand the distinct characteristics of each period of art and to gain a clearer view of how Chinese art has changed in relation to its historical context. With many improvements that bring it fully up to date, The Arts of China will remain the most comprehensive and widely read introduction to the history of Chinese art." -- Publisher's description

Subjects

• Art
• History
• China
• Art, Chinese
• Art > China > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-333) and index.

Contents

Preface to Sixth Edition -- Afterthoughts -- Chronological Table of Dynasties and Modern Republics -- Reign Periods of the Ming and Qing Dynasties -- Before the Dawn of History -- The Early Bronze Age: Shang and Western Zhou -- Eastern Zhou and the Period of the Warring States -- The Qin and Han Dynasties -- The Three Kingdoms and the Six Dynasties -- The Sui and Tang Dynasties -- The Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty -- The Yuan Dynasty -- The Ming Dynasty -- The Qing Dynasty -- The Twentieth Century and Beyond.

Call Number

JQF 19-593

ISBN

• 0520294815 (paperback)
• 9780520294813 (paperback)
• 9780520294806 (cloth)
• 0520294807 (cloth)

OCLC

1029635676

Author

Sullivan, Michael, 1916-2013, author.

Title

The arts of China / Michael Sullivan with Shelagh Vainker.

Publisher

Oakland, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

Sixth edition, revised.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-333) and index.

Added Author

Vainker, S. J., author.

Research Call Number

JQF 19-593