Chinese art & culture / Robert L. Thorp, Richard Ellis Vinograd.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-429) and index.

Prehistoric roots: late Neolithic cultures -- The early Bronze Age: Shang and western Zhou -- The late Bronze Age: Eastern Zhou -- The first empires: Qin and Han -- Age of the Dharma: the period of division -- A new Imperial state: Sui and Tang -- Technologies and cultures of the song -- Official, personal, and urban arts of the Yuan to middle Ming -- Art systems and circulations: late Ming to Middle Qing -- Identity and community in 19th- and 20th-century Chinese art.

An illustrated chronicle of Chinese art from the late Neolithic period through the twentieth century, which discusses artistic reflections of politics, material culture, belief systems, and more, and includes over one hundred color plates, eight maps, and a time line.

Face to face : the transcendence of the arts in China and beyond : approaches to modern and contemporary art / edited by Rui Oliveira Lopes.

On leaf following cover: Centro de Investigação e Estudos em Belas-Artes. Secção de ciẽncias da arte e do património de Francisco de Holanda.

Papers originally presented at a conference organized by the Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Lisboa and held in Lisbon from 3rd-5th April 2013.

“This book is published on the occasion of the research project Face to face : the transcendence of the arts in China and beyond coordinated by Rui Oliveira Lopes and Fernando António Baptista Pereira, from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon"--Preliminary page.

"Art in a Global Perspective is a programme iniated by Rui Oliveira Lopes in 2011 at the Artistic Studies Research Centre (CIBA) Faculty of Fine Arts., University of Lisbon (FBAUL)"--Page [3].

"The present book intends to examine the place of Chinese Modern and Contemporary art, the emergence and development of China's avant-garde and their expanses worldwide, the display and representation of Chinese art in the West, and the issues related with cultural appropriation, artistic interaction, geographical delimitation, rejection of cultural tradition, and intervention as a means of artistic expression, and cultural distinctiveness related with artistic creation. For this purpose, this volume includes a selection of papers recommended by a committee of scholars as well as papers authored by other prominent scholars invited to collaborate in this project. The papers in this book are divided in two sections covering two chronological periods: 19th century and Modern art; and Contemporary art, starting soon after the end of the Cultural Revolution. This book offers some starting points for the study of the arts in China and its aesthetic expanses throughout the world during the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. Whereas some of the papers move towards the display of Chinese modern and contemporary art in Europe and US; the emergence and development of marketplace for the international commercialization of Chinese painting during the Republican period; and the interactions between Western advertising and graphic design, and Chinese propaganda visual culture; others are more grounded to mutual influence of philosophical and conceptual content; to the recontextualization of Chinese tradition and cultural environment; to the interplay between art, politics and intervention; and finally to the formation of Chinese avant-garde and their artistic expression by different kinds of media such as performance, photography, installation and film, unusual in the history of Chinese art scene"--Amazon.com.