The Experience of Art: Twentieth Century Chinese Paintings from the Shuisongshi Shanfang Collection

‘In the act of creation an artist expresses the summation of his personal experience and that of the social and cultural forces that inform his being. The experience of art is to be found in the enjoyment derived from the interaction of a work’s surface aspects and the world of ideas and ideas that it suggest or represents. To partake of that experience is to reach the wellsprings where the sum total experiences are stored and made meaningful.

Using his own collection of twentieth century Chinese paintings as a vehicle, Hugh Moss aims to encourage the reader to join that civilizing and exciting process.

With its background information and detailed commentaries on ninety-six works by leading twentieth century Chinese artists, it is also a useful basic guide to Chinese painting. It is a work which will begin to explain the enchanting mysteries of the world of Chinese painting for those who would like to enjoy this most refined art form at the levels of its most powerful expression’.