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Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History by James Elkins is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 A 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 Bear Implications For Sinology In General, And For Wider Questions About Humanistic Inquiry And Historical Writing. --from Book Jacket. I. A Brace Of Comparisons -- Ii. Tying Some Laces -- Iii. The Argument -- Iv. The Endgame, And The Qing Eclipse -- V. Postscripts. James Elkins ; With A Foreword By Jennifer Purtle. Includes Bibliographic References (p. [147]-174) And Index.

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Author

James Elkins

Publisher

Hong Kong University Press; Eurospan [distributor]

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9789622090002

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, Philosophy