Painting as transcultural dialogue

This Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary Painting does not aim to be broadly international in its explorations of transcultural dialogue within modern and contemporary painting. Instead, we focus mostly on China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea, with a notable detour down towards the Philippines.

The essays comprise a series of ‘snap-shots’ which together give a sense of the richness of the global dialogue in painting. We also take a couple of trips into the deeper past to visit Qing Dynasty landscape painting in China, and to the more recent past to explore of the impact of Zen on western monochrome painters in the 1950s and 1960s.