How the Integration of"Sinology"and"Art History"is Possible:An Experimental Discussion on the Formation and Development of"New Art Sinology"in Europe and the United States since the 20th Century
After the great discussion of"sinology or art history"in the 1940s,three characteristics of the study of Chinese art in Europe and the United States appeared different from that of the"art sinology"col-lection.The first is the gradual merging of the identities of"sinologists"and"art historians,"forming a siz-able group of scholars;the second is the complementarity of the traditional sinological method of evidence and the art historical method of stylistic analysis in the argumentation;and the third is that,based on the translation and introduction of more theoretical literature on art,"Chinese art"as the object of study became more clearly defined,and the research boundaries that had been obscured during the phase of"art Sinology"were also recovered.In the middle of the 20th century,"new art sinology",characterized by intercultural-ism and interdisciplinarity,has entered the stage of being a meta-discipline or even post-discipline.