{"pk":42561,"title":"Excerpt from \nEast–West Interchanges in American Art: A Long and Tumultuous Relationship","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Gordon Chang’s essay, excerpted from\n East–West Interchanges in American Art: A Long and Tumultuous Relationship\n, focuses on Zhang Shuqi, a Chinese-born artist who worked in the United States during the period of World War II and acted as a cultural diplomat for China. Zhang strongly influenced American mass culture by bringing methods of Chinese brush painting to a general audience. However, despite the popular “orientalist” association of Zhang’s art with traditional brush painting (and, beyond that, timeless Chinese culture), his work was in fact strikingly modern.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Zhang Shuqi"},{"word":"Brush Painting"},{"word":"American Studies"},{"word":"Cultural Studies"},{"word":"Art History"}],"section":"Forward","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0207q69j","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Gordon","middle_name":"H.","last_name":"Chang","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-06-18T20:52:54Z","date_accepted":"2012-06-18T20:52:54Z","date_published":"2012-06-21T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jtas/article/42561/galley/31770/download/"}]}