The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art

Download or read book The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art written by Michael Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.