The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art, Revised and Expanded Edition - Softcover

Sullivan, Michæl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520212363 ISBN 13: 9780520212367

Publisher: University of California Press, 1998

Synopsis

The meeting of Eastern and Western art is always more than a synthesis; it offers creative possibilities for interaction between East and West, a process in which the great civilizations preserve their own character while stimulating and enriching each other. In this book, Michael Sullivan leads the reader through four centuries of exciting interaction between the artists of China and Japan and those of Western Europe. From Hokusai to van Gogh, Sullivan shows how the study of artistic interpretation has significantly enlarged and enriched our vision of artists and their aims and ideals both East and West.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Michael Sullivan is a master stylist. . . . His is one of those rare texts that take on the important task of assimilating the humanistic heritage of the East with our own heritage in the West." (Martin J. Powers, University of Michigan )

About the Author:

Michael Sullivan is Fellow Emeritus at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. He is the author of The Arts of China (third edition, California, 1984) and Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China (California, 1996).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520212363
• ISBN 13: 9780520212367
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320