A Brief Overview of Historiography of Traditional Chinese Art

Abstract

This article examines the historiography of the problem of exploring the features of traditional art in China, which has been most clearly formed since about the 19th century. Later, already in the 20th century, the art and culture of the Chinese habitat is already clearly manifested in the variety of types and subjects of fine and decorative arts. The article gives a brief historiography of the problem from the beginning of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century, when hundreds of articles were published on the visual and decorative applied traditional art of China. They present both scientific and informational materials on the general history of the emergence of traditional art, as well as on individual objects of Chinese traditional art.