Download or read book Discovering Chinese Painting written by Jason C. Kuo and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of the death, retirement, imminent retirement of many American historians of Chinese painting, Kuo (art history, U. of Maryland) interviews seven of them, and is himself interviewed, on the recent development of the field as an academic discipline. He concludes that the development has been shaped by a number of historical, cultural, and institutional factors. The interviews were conducted between 1989 and 1999; postscripts have been added to some of the earlier ones. An earlier version of the interview with him has been published separately. There is no index. c. Book News Inc.