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Chinese Painting
Innovation After
"Progress" Ends
James Cahill
Professor Emeritus, History of Art,
University of California, Berkeley
The time is long past when Western
specialists in the history of Chinese
painting have had to be defensive about
the status of their subject within world
Aart. succession of major exhibitions, the
building of impressive museum and
private collections, and an outpouring of
substantial publications both scholarly and
popular over the past half-century or so
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