Xu Beihong's artistic legacy lives on in new book

For those who missed last year's widely-acclaimed retrospective exhibition at the art museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, a new book offers a second chance to appreciate the work of Xu Beihong.

Xu Beihong: Living Art Forever, published by the CITIC Press Group in August, provides pictorial access to the late artist's prominent collections, as well as presenting the latest developments in the study of his work.

Cataloging all of the pieces shown at the eponymous CAFA exhibition in 2018, it features Xu's sketches, drawings, personal letters with family and friends and old photos, as well as articles by art historians from home and abroad. It traces the dramatic life and career of the master artist, through which the reader can envision a wider view of the transformation of Chinese art in the 20th-century.