This guide was published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Art and China’s Revolution', organized by Asia Society, New York. Running from 5 September 2008 to 11 January 2009, this exhibition considers the artistic achievement and legacy of one of the most tumultuous and catastrophic periods in recent Chinese history: the three decades following the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. The exhibition brings together large-scale oil paintings, ink paintings, sculptures, drawings and artist sketchbooks, woodblock prints, posters, and objects from everyday life, many never before shown in the United States. It is the first exhibition to examine in-depth the powerful and complicated effects of Mao Zedong’s revolutionary ideals on artists and art production in China. This slim volume is not the full color, 260-page book edited by Melissa Chiu and Zheng Shentian, but a more portable exhibition guide, mainly comprised of a checklist of works and an essay by Craig Calhoun on China's "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" (GPCR). A bibliography of supplementary reading is included.
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EX.USA.AAC
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English
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2008
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60
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9780878481095
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1
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catalogue
Art and China's Revolution: A Guide to the Exhibition, 藝術與中國革命
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