Author: Michael Sullivan

Publisher/Date: California 1999, revised and expanded fourth edition ISBN: 9780520218772

Format/Condition: New softcover in fine condition. Pages/Length: 322, illustrated

Description: For this fourth edition of The Arts of China, previously updated in 1984, Michael Sullivan has thoroughly revised and expanded his classic text on Chinese art from the Neolithic period through the 1990s, introducing not only artworks, but also the social, political, religious, and philosophical contexts in which they were created. China’s dramatic opening to the outside world since the 1980s has triggered an explosion of contemporary Chinese art, on which Sullivan is among the foremost Western authorities. His lucid and engaging style make this college-level text—taught at Yale, the University of Washington, and the University of Hong Kong, among many others—readily accessible to general readers as well as serious students of art history. “I have used this text in my class for 30 years. With full revisions and additions reflecting recent archaeology and art historical scholarship, the fourth edition will continue to be the best one-volume history of Chinese art in the English language. No other historian of Chinese art today commands such a wide range of knowledge as Michael Sullivan.”—Richard Barnhart