刘正成｜苏立文之碑

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苏立文之碑

丁酉秋刘正成书

苏立文教授一九一六年出生于加拿大多伦多，就读于剑桥大学，一九四零年至一九四六年在中国为国际红十字会和博物馆工作，在此期间与生物学家吴环女土相识，并相伴一生。他于一九五二年获哈佛大学博士学位，先后任教于新加坡马来亚大学、亚非学院、斯坦福大学等，随后定居牛津，成为牛津大学圣凯瑟琳学院的成员。在将近一个世纪的学术生涯中，他广泛结交中国艺术界的杰出人物，深入研究中国艺术史，尤其洞察近百年中国画坛的发展变化，堪称中国近代近现代艺术史见证人。他著作甚丰，尤以《中国艺术史》、《中西方艺术的交会》《二十世纪中国艺术与艺术家》等享誉于世，从而也成为向西方介绍、传播中国近现代艺术史的第一人。苏立文教授二零一三年九月逝世于牛津。

Michael Sullivan Inscription
Professor Michael Sullivan was born in Toronto, Canada in 1916, and studied at Cambridge University. He went to China and worked for the International Red Cross and various museums in China from 1940 to 1946. There he met biologist Wu Khoan, whom he married, and accompanied throughout her lifetime. He gained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1952, and taught at the universities of Malaya, SOAS, and Stanford, and then settled in Oxford where he was an Emeritus Fellow at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University. During his academic life of more than 70 years, he built friendships with many prominent artists in China and studied the History of Chinese Art in depth. With his deep insights into the development and transformations of Chinese painting over the last ten decades, he has been considered a witness to modern and contemporary Chinese art history. He is particularly known for his monographs "The Arts of China”, “The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art” and “Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China” amongst his extensive list of publications through which established himself as the pioneering  scholar introducing modern and contemporary Chinese art to the West. Professor Sullivan passed away peacefully in Oxford in September 2013.