"From posters and advertisements to book covers and magazines, this book presents a dazzling panoply of modern graphic design in China. Beginning with the basic traditions of Chinese graphics, the authors show how the writer and artist Lu Xun became the center of cultural revival in the new China. We see Art Deco coming to China in the Shanghai Style, and the birth of a dynamic national design style, born of Russian Constructivism and China’s own drive for new technology. The Socialist Realist art of Mao in turn adopted folk art traditions to fuel the Revolutionary machine, while the continuing search for a new identity can be seen in the graphic images of protest from the summer of 1989." - from the publisher's website
The section 'Reference Guide' contains a list of Chinese publishers, bibliographies and a designer index.
Onsite
English
1990
160
9780500235980
1
monograph
Chinese Traditions
May Fourth and the Formative Years
The Shanghai Style
The Progressive Movement
Proletarians and Paper Tigers
Yan'an and the Artistic Ideal
The Revolutionary Machine
The Turbulent Years
Open Doors and Beyond
Chinese Graphic Design in the Twentieth Century, 中國設計
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