‘Michael Sullivan and his study of modern and Contemporary Chinese Painting’

Abstract

The late Michael Sullivan was the foremost pioneer in the study of 20th-century Chinese painting and the roots of modernity in Chinese art history. This essay examines the biographical factors and underlying values that consistently shaped and appear in his many writings on the subject.

Keywords

• Michael Sullivan
• modernity in Chinese painting
• Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century
• The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art
• from the Sixteenth Century to the Present
• Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China
• Modern Chinese Artists: A Biographical Dictionary