'Forty years after China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution, this book revisits the visual and performing arts of the period – the paintings, propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture, folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet – and examines what these vibrant, militant, often gaudy images meant to artists, their patrons, and their audiences at the time, and what they mean now, both in their original forms and as revolutionary icons reworked for a new market-oriented age. Chapters by scholars of Chinese history and art and by artists whose careers were shaped by the Cultural Revolution offer new insights into works that have transcended their times.' - from publisher's website.
Includes bibliography and biographies of contributors.
Contemporary Chinese Studies
Onsite
English
2010
282
9789888028641
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anthology
Introduction: Vibrant Images of a Turbulent Decade - Richard KING, Jan WALLS
Part 1: Artists and the State
The Art of the Cultural Revolution - Julia F. ANDREWS, 安雅蘭
Summoning Confucius: Inside Shi Lu's Imagination - Shelley Drake HAWKS
Part 2: Artists Remember: Two Memoirs
Brushes Are Weapons: An Art School and Its Artists - ZHENG Shengtian, 鄭勝天
When We Were Young: Up to the Mountains, Down to the Villages - GU Xiong, 顧雄
Part 3: Meanings Then and Now
The Rent Collection Courtyard, Past and Present - Britta ERICKSON, 林似竹
Hu Xian Peasant Painting: From Revolutionary Icon to Market Commodity - Ralph CROIZIER, 郭適
Part 4: Beyond the Visual Arts
Model Theatrical Works and the Remodelling of the Cultural Revolution - Paul CLARK
Feminism in the Revolutionary Model Ballets The White-Haired Girl and The Red Detachment of Women - BAI Di
Fantasies of Battle: Making the Militant Hero Prominent - Richard KING
Art in Turmoil: The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76
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