{"product_id":"chinese-art-modern-expressions-9780300091984","title":"Chinese Art: Modern Expressions","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChinese Art: Modern Expressions\u003c\/strong\u003e by Hearn, Maxwell K.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780300091984.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChinas entry into the modern era was shaped by unprecedented internal turmoil and external pressures, which brought a forceful end to two millennia of imperial rule and cultural insularity. The essays in this volume offer a variety of perspectives on the impact of the West on indigenous literature, architecture, painting, and calligraphy during this period (ca. 1860–1980). Contents: In the Name of the Real by David Der-wei Wang; Painting and the Built Environment in Late- Nineteenth-Century Shanghai\nby Jonathan Hay; Sketch Conceptualism as Modernist Contingency\nby Eugene Y. Wang; Li Keran and His Exhibition Paintings by Wan Qingli; Aesthetic Appropriation of Ancient Calligraphy in Modern China\nby Lothar Ledderose; From Wu Dacheng to Mao Zedong: The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Twentieth Century\nby Qianshen Bai; Commentaries by Richard Vinograd and Julia F. Andrews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Metropolitan Museum of Art New York","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67932318990389,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300091982","price":100.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300091984.jpg?v=1794223828","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/chinese-art-modern-expressions-9780300091984","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}