This concept addresses the cultural and artistic developments in China's "Period of Disunity" (following the fall of the Han dynasty, prior to reunification under the Sui and Tang dynasties), a roughly 300-year era of political fragmentation during which two major artistic currents emerged: the introduction and growing influence of Buddhism as a force in artmaking, and the rise of the "arts of the brush"—painting, poetry, and calligraphy—as an interlinked elite art form. The period demonstrates that political disunity did not preclude, and in fact coincided with, significant cultural and artistic innovation that shaped subsequent Chinese art history.
This concept addresses the cultural and artistic developments in China's "Period of Disunity" (following the fall of the Han dynasty, prior to reunification under the Sui and Tang dynasties), a rough…