在苏立文先生所著的《二十世纪中国艺术与艺术家》中文版序言的开篇部分,他这样写道:“一九五九年,当我出版西方语言中的第一部研究此课题的专著时,西方同行们批评我为一个不值得严肃对待的课题浪费时间。”①其实,何止是西方人,在中国美术通史的不少书籍中,文至清代也就结束了—二十世纪被“似乎无意地”回避。或许 In the opening part of the preface to the Chinese edition of “20th Century Chinese Artists and Artists in Twentieth Century” by Mr. Sullivan, he wrote: “In 1959, when I published the first monograph in the western language to study this subject At the same time, Western colleagues criticized me as a waste of time for a topic not worthy of serious treatment. ”1 In fact, it is more than a Westerner. In many books on the general history of fine arts in China, the period from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the end of the 20th century Be “avoided” by “seems unintentionally”. perhaps