Zhang Jian (PhD, China Academy of Art) is Professor of Modern Art History in the School of Art and Humanities at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, as well as Director of the Library. He is the author of Life in Visual Forms of Art (China Academy of Art Press, 2004), Western Modern Art History (Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House 2009), and An Exploration of the Humanistic and Critical Perspectives of Western Modern Art Historiography (Peking University Press, 2017).
Complementary Modernisms in China and the United States: Art as Life/Art as Idea